bugzilla life cycle

[Don Russell]

Just curious... not meant as any sort of criticism.... :-)

Is there a typical time frame from when a bug is closed/fixed in 
bugzilla, and the correction distributed via yum update?

In particular, I'm curious about a bug I opened against ftp, and 
provided a fix for...

If interested, see 
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=196103

Don

[Rahul Sundaram]

Don Russell wrote:
> Just curious... not meant as any sort of criticism.... :-)
>
> Is there a typical time frame from when a bug is closed/fixed in 
> bugzilla, and the correction distributed via yum update?

It varies widely. Severity is one of the factors. Critical security 
updates and crashers for example are usually fixed much faster compared 
to other issues.
> In particular, I'm curious about a bug I opened against ftp, and 
> provided a fix for...
>
> If interested, see 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=196103

The bug is marked as closed in the current release. So a update should 
have been provided by now. If not reopen and claim. If a several bug is 
not being responded to, fedora-devel list would be a good place to ask.

Rahul

[Matthew Miller]

On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 07:59:07AM -0700, Don Russell wrote:
> Is there a typical time frame from when a bug is closed/fixed in 
> bugzilla, and the correction distributed via yum update?

Nope.
> In particular, I'm curious about a bug I opened against ftp, and 
> provided a fix for...
> If interested, see 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=196103

This was closed as CURRENTRELEASE, but it appears the RH engineer chose that
by mistake -- it's actually fixed in the development tree, not an update to
the current release, so either NEXTRELEASE or RAWHIDE would have been
correct.

I'm going to go ahead and change the resolution to RAWHIDE. However, if you
believe this is an issue which really deserves an FC5 errata, you should
reopen with a comment to that effect.

[Don Russell]

Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 07:59:07AM -0700, Don Russell wrote:
> > Is there a typical time frame from when a bug is closed/fixed in 
> > bugzilla, and the correction distributed via yum update?
>
> Nope.
> > In particular, I'm curious about a bug I opened against ftp, and 
> > provided a fix for...
> > If interested, see 
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=196103
>
> This was closed as CURRENTRELEASE, but it appears the RH engineer chose that
> by mistake -- it's actually fixed in the development tree, not an update to
> the current release, so either NEXTRELEASE or RAWHIDE would have been
> correct.
>
> I'm going to go ahead and change the resolution to RAWHIDE. However, if you
> believe this is an issue which really deserves an FC5 errata, you should
> reopen with a comment to that effect.

Thanks.... I reopened it asking if it could be released as an FC5 
update.... it's not critical to me at this point, I've already worked 
around the issue with another solution. But, since there are no special 
requirements/dependencies for this fix, I don't see why it should wait 
until FC6 before being distributed. I don't necessarily expect it to be 
retrofitted to FC4,3,2 etc, but FC5 is "current" and I'd rather see 
fixes sooner than later. :-)