Requesting a change to the BugStatusWorkFlow: Closed/UPSTREAM

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Sat Jan 21 00:16:15 UTC 2012


On Fri, 2012-01-20 at 09:30 +0000, Tim Waugh wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-01-20 at 08:39 +0100, Marcela Mašláňová wrote:
> > I use closed/upstream, when I already fixed it in upstream. This bug 
> > should be closed with number of release, where it is fixed or with the 
> > link to the commit. I wouldn't blame this state for not fixing bug in 
> > some projects. I guess instead of closed/upstream we would see more 
> > closed/wontfix|cantfix.
> 
> I use POST for that.
> 
> "A patch or solution believed to resolve this matter has been proposed
> (POSTed) for inclusion in the package or kernel."
> 
> For non-kernel packages I read that as meaning that the patch is in-hand
> upstream, and not yet built in Fedora.

POST is kind of problematic as different groups use it for different
meanings. anaconda use it to mean 'a patch has been sent to
anaconda-devel-list for review', for e.g.
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