On Fri, May 8, 2015 at 5:24 AM, Stephen Frost <sfr...@snowman.net> wrote:
> * Tom Lane (t...@sss.pgh.pa.us) wrote: > > Now, if we can easily shove stuff back and forth between the main queue > > and the bug-fix queue, maybe that's not such a big deal. But it doesn't > > seem like the current CF app is really amenable to that; doesn't it for > > example want to leave an entry behind when you move something to another > > CF? > > I agree that we'd need to have that capability if we are to go down this > road, but I won't pretend to have any idea about the level of > difficulty. If we're agreed that this is at least reasonable to explore > then we really need to ask Magnus to weigh in when it comes to the > implementation side of things. > The technical side can certainly be handled. It would require some special-casing that might make it a bit uglier, but it's certainly doable. We could also use the category that we have now, or even create the concept of a tag (where you can assign multiple ones). And then have a view that brings together a view of everything with a specific tag/category, *regardless* of which CF it's on. So the patch itself would live in whatever CF it was put in (or punted to), but you can get a global view. Which with a filter would make it easy to see "everything flagged as a bugfix that has not been committed". Which I think is the main thing we're looking for here, is it not? Apart from being cleaner from the code perspective, I think that might make it more clean from a user perspective as well. It would also mean that a patch can easily be re-categorised in and out of being a bugfix quite simply, and just get a history entry when that happens (and not a bumped-between-cf entry). Another thought which occured to me, just to throw it out there, was the > idea of a "Next point release" kind of CF, which is perhaps renamed when > to whatever the point release actually is and anything which didn't make > it is bumped to a new CF entry, or something along those lines. > That doesn't sound like a CF to me. Again, it might be a tag or a category or something, but the main thing with the CF term is that it's the fixed-period cycle of development. We shouldn't start abusing that too much... -- Magnus Hagander Me: http://www.hagander.net/ Work: http://www.redpill-linpro.com/
