Re: how long is 'pending'

2007-05-22 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > How long should bugs be tagged pending in advance of an upload? > > Is it acceptable to tag a bug pending when fixed upstream and the > maintainer is confident of an upstream release in under a week? (This > is easy for me, I'm also upstream in many case

Re: how long is 'pending'

2007-05-16 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 16 May 2007, Kevin Mark wrote: > The other idea was for a simple .../pending page on the bts so that > folks could quickly see what is about to be fixed. Just append ;pend-inc=pending-fixed; to your pkgreport.cgi url, like so: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=debbugs;dist=

Re: how long is 'pending'

2007-05-16 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 06:01:54AM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Wed, 16 May 2007, Kevin Mark wrote: > > would it be useful for some process to periodically poll the bts for > > 'pending' tags that are unusually old [ say 1 or 2 months ] and ping >

Re: how long is 'pending'

2007-05-16 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Wednesday 16 May 2007 14:29, Don Armstrong wrote: > Indicates that the maintainer has fixed the bug (or believes they > have fixed the bug) in their development tree and the next upload > will include the fix for the bug. Good, but to me the bit between parenthesis does not add anything u

Re: how long is 'pending'

2007-05-16 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 16 May 2007, Kevin Mark wrote: > would it be useful for some process to periodically poll the bts for > 'pending' tags that are unusually old [ say 1 or 2 months ] and ping > the maintainer to remind them if they forget to 'release often'? I can't imagine a maintainer not being aware of bu

Re: how long is 'pending'

2007-05-16 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 01:24:07PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: > On Wednesday 16 May 2007 12:50, Neil Williams wrote: > > How long should bugs be tagged pending in advance of an upload? > > For me "pending" is a signal to users saying "issue has been conf

Re: how long is 'pending'

2007-05-16 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 16 May 2007, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Wed, 16 May 2007, Neil Williams wrote: > > How long should bugs be tagged pending in advance of an upload? > > Time isn't the important metric, in my opinion. The question is > whether the maintainer has fixed the bug (or believes they have fixed > t

Re: how long is 'pending'

2007-05-16 Thread Neil Williams
On Wed, 16 May 2007 13:24:07 +0200 Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wednesday 16 May 2007 12:50, Neil Williams wrote: > > How long should bugs be tagged pending in advance of an upload? > > For me "pending" is a signal to users saying "issue has been confirmed, > solution is available and

Re: how long is 'pending'

2007-05-16 Thread Luis Matos
Frank Küster escreveu: Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: How long should bugs be tagged pending in advance of an upload? Is it acceptable to tag a bug pending when fixed upstream and the maintainer is confident of an upstream release in under a week? (This is easy for me, I'm also up

Re: how long is 'pending'

2007-05-16 Thread Frank Küster
Neil Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How long should bugs be tagged pending in advance of an upload? > > Is it acceptable to tag a bug pending when fixed upstream and the > maintainer is confident of an upstream release in under a week? (This > is easy for me, I'm also upstream in many cases

Re: how long is 'pending'

2007-05-16 Thread Don Armstrong
On Wed, 16 May 2007, Neil Williams wrote: > How long should bugs be tagged pending in advance of an upload? Time isn't the important metric, in my opinion. The question is whether the maintainer has fixed the bug (or believes they have fixed the bug) in their development environment and the fix wi

Re: how long is 'pending'

2007-05-16 Thread cobaco (aka Bart Cornelis)
On Wednesday 16 May 2007, Neil Williams wrote: > How long should bugs be tagged pending in advance of an upload? To me pending means, a fix is applied and will be in the next upload/release (hence no further triaging needed on this bug). It says nothing about when the upload with the fix will ta

Re: how long is 'pending'

2007-05-16 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 16 May 2007 12:50, Neil Williams wrote: > How long should bugs be tagged pending in advance of an upload? For me "pending" is a signal to users saying "issue has been confirmed, solution is available and will be included with the next upload". It would IMO not be correct to mark a b

how long is 'pending'

2007-05-16 Thread Neil Williams
How long should bugs be tagged pending in advance of an upload? Is it acceptable to tag a bug pending when fixed upstream and the maintainer is confident of an upstream release in under a week? (This is easy for me, I'm also upstream in many cases. :-)) Does it depend on the severity of the bug?