Requesting a change to the BugStatusWorkFlow: Closed/UPSTREAM

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Mon Jan 23 08:48:27 UTC 2012


On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 07:42:57AM +0100, David Tardon wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 21, 2012 at 12:27:10PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 08:16:31AM +0100, David Tardon wrote:
> > > The libreoffice team uses this resolution for
> > > 
> > > 1) bugs that are not reproducible, but we _think_ we know what is the
> > > cause (these are mostly "fire and forget" abrt bugs, where we managed to
> > > get something useful from the backtrace)
> > 
> > CLOSED -> WORKSFORME or INSUFFICIENT_DATA
> > 
> > > 2) bugs that only appear under very specific conditions and are unlikely
> > > to affect many users.
> > 
> > CLOSED -> CANTFIX or WONTFIX
> > 
> > I don't think CLOSED -> UPSTREAM is a good resolution for either of
> > these classes of unfixed bugs.
> 
> It seems I was not clear enough--I spoke about bugs we _fixed_ in
> upstream, but did not backport the fixes into Fedora. But, well, I do
> not really care so much--I will roll a die the next time I am not sure
> which resolution to pick...

Ah well if you have *fixed* the bugs, then CLOSED -> UPSTREAM
is perfectly reasonable.

Rich.

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