On 26.05.2014 13:14, Rainer Bielefeld wrote:
my experience is that such tracking bugs are not useful. The time
invested in adding dependencies (what is rather uncertain, who can know
how many bugs are missing and on what facts the various contributors
added the bugs to the Meta) should be invested (with much more benefit)
into careful review of the related BZ bugs and completion of information
in the BZ bugs.
I disagree that they are useless. As long as we're not sure if or when
we should do a 4.1.1 and what changes could get into it such a
meta-issue gives an easy overview of the candidates and their status:
https://issues.apache.org/ooo/showdependencytree.cgi?id=124985&hide_resolved=0
If we decide to make a bugfix release then the appropriate milestone
target and its release-blocker flag will be created. Once the issue
candidates have been reviewed and their bug fields (target and blocker)
have been adjusted only then the meta-bug becomes irrelevant. But up to
that point it is a good tracking mechanism with global visibility, clear
accountability of who suggested what and direct links to the candidate
issues.
I recommend not to create tracking bugs what can be replaced easily by
queries and if there is no evidence that they are necessary for the bug
fixing process.
And if there is a decision that the tracking bug should be created
please follow
[...]
<https://issues.apache.org/ooo/buglist.cgi?bug_severity=blocker&bug_severity=critical&bug_severity=major&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=CONFIRMED&bug_status=ACCEPTED&bug_status=REOPENED&f3=OP&f4=version&f5=version&f6=CP&f8=cf_bug_type&j3=OR&list_id=149754&o4=regexp&o5=regexp&o8=equals&priority=P1&priority=P2&query_format=advanced&v4=^4.1&v5=^4.2&v8=DEFECT>
Currently this query just yields bug 124891 which indeed looks like a
good candidate.
I suggest to FUP this discussion on the q...@openoffice.apache.org list.
Herbert
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