Hi Kristis, I'll reply below.

> Hi Abraham,
>
> On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 11:15 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Is it necessary to see this information "in the bugtracker" ? Well, it is
> > in my case because of the way we work; I don't know whether other offices
>
> I am not convinced.
>
> Why must such information, which are a dynamic property (can be renamed,
> deleted), be present IN the bugtracker as comments ?
>
> > test version. Now consultants need to know which issues' fixes are
> already
> > available for testing, and I thought adding notes to issues related with
> > tagged files would be an easy, quick, automatic and difficult-to-mistake
> > way.
>
> Consultants can know this information *without* that information being
> in the bug-tracker. The VDD Generator produces a document, in both pdf
> and html formats, that lists which fixes went into a release. This
> document provides the information you need. When you release on your
> test server, you could produce a VDD document and make it available on
> that server for the consultants to view.

Well, as I said, that feature is useful in my case, but might be redundant in
other cases. It is true that I can get that information with a VDD document,
the thing is consultants don't want to be bothered with anything besides
Mantis; it's not a technical problem, it's attitude. That means I'd have to
generate a VDD document once a week and manually insert comments on fixed
issues instead of having them automatically inserted as soon as a tag a
version. It's troublesome for me, but I can understand it's not a necessity
for all scmbug users.

> > Now the second part, behavior. I don't think it's necessary to find out
> > which files have changed nor which the previous tag was. In the very
>
> I disagree.
>
> > have the <file, version, bug> data, I can search the matching <file,
> > version> pairs and get related bug numbers; this would take into account
> > branches and file modifications. On the other hand, it's also true that
>
> How far back do you search ? At which version should you stop ? You
> don't know that unless you know *from* which version you are tagging.

My mistake, I got something wrong: I was assuming only current version of the
file was needed to know fixed bugs, I just noticed previous versions can also
have fixes. In that case you do indeed have to look back for versions.

Regards,
Abraham
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