Hello, all, On Fri, 2014-03-14 at 10:11 -0700, bfoman wrote: > Michael Stahl-2 wrote > > definitely a problem, but i think it's a pretty fundamental limitation: > > bugzilla simply has no concept of branches. > > Hi! > Bugzilla branch support (called sightings): > - progress - follow https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55970 > - code - > http://git.mozilla.org/?p=bugzilla/bugzilla.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/sightings > Unfortunately seems not finished yet but merged recently with up-to-date > code.
>From the specification attached to that bug report <https://bug55970.bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=304328>, the basic idea is to have separate underlying bugs with an integrated interface making it easy to clone off an "also-associated" bug or to copy information between bugs in the set of also-associated bugs. I do not find this attractive, but then I am an unimaginative old man with a prejudice against keeping multiple copies of information. ( <grin attitude="wry"/> And, yes, I am grumpy too. ) Perhaps more seriously, There is no way to record places where a bug is *not* evident. This matters to us not so much for versions--we have bibisect for that--as it does for platforms, configration parameters, and whatever. For example, there is no easy way to distinguish a Windows-only bug (I have nothing to offer), from a bug reported on Windows and unconsidered elsewhere (I may have something to offer). <enter object="the_weeds"> (*) "Sighting" is too positive a word for what I am talking about. Let us say "observation" for now. (*) Each observation is associated with a specific build running on a specific platform. Because that is what is in front of the person reporting the observation, of course. </enter> Just my C$0.02, Terry. _______________________________________________ List Name: Libreoffice-qa mailing list Mail address: Libreoffice-qa@lists.freedesktop.org Change settings: http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/libreoffice-qa Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/libreoffice-qa/