On Sat, 2009-03-21 at 22:21 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Christopher Beland wrote: > > I see three options: > > A Maintain one bug report per bug, across all versions > > B Maintain one bug report per bug, across all versions, unless a > > reporter is advocating for a backport > > C Maintain separate bug reports for each version a bug appears in > > > > I generally do (A) for Fedora bugs, is this common practice for other > > triagers and maintainers? > > Yes, AFAICT it's the current practice for almost everyone except the > security team which for some reason wants to do its own thing. :-/ > > > Having multiple bugs for the same problem makes it harder to collect > > diagnostic information, and seems confusing for maintainers. > > Triage-time doesn't seem like a good point to make copies of bugs, > > because the fix for all two or three different Fedora versions is likely > > to be the same. Probably the time to make new bugs for specific > > versions, if any is when a fix is deployed to at least one version. > > +1 > > We already had a discussion on this topic, but unfortunately it came to no > consensus. :-( As I said, it's because it's a problem you can't solve well with Bugzilla. Every possible approach has significant disadvantages, so you will likely never get consensus for any one option. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
