On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 10:36:30AM +0200, Olivier Berger claimed: >Travis Brown <[email protected]> writes: >> My only concern is how to transfer comments on a bug inline. > >Uh... can you explicit a bit more what you're thinking about ? >
The core of my goal is to have a format where a snapshot of the state of a bug can be exchanged as a single file between bug trackers. This includes all the bug metadata such as reporter, state, etc. It also includes all the comments on the bug. A bug could then be imported into a bug tracker from a single file. As an example suppose a distribution had a bug opened about a particular application. After some back and forth it is determined that the issue is a real bug in the application. The package maintainer could then export the bug from the distribution bug tracker and email the application maintainer the bug, with all the discussion included. That application maintainer can then view the bug in a bug viewer and if he agrees with the assessment that it is a real bug he can import it into the application's bug tracker. In this case it is important to have the comments included with the bug when it is initially passed around as they will contain important clarifications and logs. A further extension of this core goal would be to not only support exchanging complete bug snapshots, but also minimal updates. The latter would be the case if a comment was added on one bug tracker and then it should be distributed among all other interested bug trackers. It is wasteful to send a full snapshot and expect the receiving tracker to do a full integration. It may also lead to unnecessary merge conflicts if the receiving tracker has changed some metadata, but the sending tracker hasn't but still includes it's view of the bug metadata when sending an update. Am I making this any clearer? -- Travis _______________________________________________ dist-bugs mailing list [email protected] http://kitenet.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dist-bugs
