Re: RFC: The BTS, Severity: Fixed, etc. (Was: An idea for the BTS)

1998-06-23 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, I think that not only should bugs be marked by the distributions they exist in, they should also be classified by architecture; since it is quite possible for a bug to only exist in a specific arch. This opens to dor for arch specific maintainers; which is not a bad idea since the

Re: RFC: The BTS, Severity: Fixed, etc. (Was: An idea for the BTS)

1998-06-23 Thread Yann Dirson
Rob Browning writes: Yann Dirson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [Note: I don't know much about the internals of the BTS; I hope this will be accurate enough, though] * These fields would be named by the codename of the dist (eg. `hamm_status') - can this be achieved easily ?

Re: RFC: The BTS, Severity: Fixed, etc. (Was: An idea for the BTS)

1998-06-23 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Manoj Srivastava wrote: I think that not only should bugs be marked by the distributions they exist in, they should also be classified by architecture; Actually, I think we can do the same way more efficent. Each bug already has a Version-number. Now we if we add a field

Re: RFC: The BTS, Severity: Fixed, etc. (Was: An idea for the BTS)

1998-06-23 Thread Dan Jacobowitz
On Tue, Jun 23, 1998 at 12:38:19PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: Previously Manoj Srivastava wrote: I think that not only should bugs be marked by the distributions they exist in, they should also be classified by architecture; Actually, I think we can do the same way more

Re: RFC: The BTS, Severity: Fixed, etc. (Was: An idea for the BTS)

1998-06-23 Thread Yann Dirson
Wichert Akkerman writes: Previously Manoj Srivastava wrote: I think that not only should bugs be marked by the distributions they exist in, they should also be classified by architecture; Actually, I think we can do the same way more efficent. Each bug already has a

Re: RFC: The BTS, Severity: Fixed, etc. (Was: An idea for the BTS)

1998-06-22 Thread Yann Dirson
Santiago Vila writes: As I see it, the `Status' of a bug-report (I suggest at least: clear, reported, identified, known-workaround, known-fix, fixed) is an issue that is othogonal to the `Severity' (as used for now: wishlist, normal, important, grave, critical) - eg. the fact that a

Re: RFC: The BTS, Severity: Fixed, etc. (Was: An idea for the BTS)

1998-06-22 Thread Rob Browning
Yann Dirson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [Note: I don't know much about the internals of the BTS; I hope this will be accurate enough, though] * These fields would be named by the codename of the dist (eg. `hamm_status') - can this be achieved easily ? Why not just go with something more

RFC: The BTS, Severity: Fixed, etc. (Was: An idea for the BTS)

1998-06-21 Thread Yann Dirson
Yann Dirson writes: Sure, but it would be nice to have some sort of a mechanism to help us to deal with bugs and dists. I think that we should keep the state of each bug-report regarding each dist (stable/frozen/unstable/experimental). Thinking backward, I don't like my last proposal