Two quotes from the last weeks:
Krenair in #mediawiki on Nov 30 22:46:47:
"andre__, what is stopping us from making a 'patch in
gerrit' bug status with a link to the change?"
Ryan Kaldari in
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42470#c4 :
"I use Bugzilla as a to-do list. [...] If Bugzilla had a 'Waiting
for Merge' status, this wouldn't be as much of an issue."
Currently there is a "patch-in-gerrit" keyword in Bugzilla. When a bug
report ends up as RESOLVED FIXED there usually had been a codefix in
Gerrit that got merged. Hence "patch in gerrit" could be considered
another state on the journey of a bug from reporting to fixing.
And Bugzilla allows adding stati (stuff like "NEW" or "RESOLVED").
I'm proposing adding a new status like
PATCH_TO_REVIEW or
WAITING_FOR_MERGE or
FIX_AWAITING_MERGE or
REVIEW_IN_PROGRESS
or something like this (bikeshed, yay!). Probably the first.
The status would replace the "patch-in-gerrit" keyword and you would set
it in Bugzilla when you have pushed a patch into Gerrit for review that
is expected to fix the reported bug. (Not sure what to do about partial
fixes, but that's a cornercase.)
Obviously, once the patch got merged you'd close the corresponding bug
report as RESOLVED FIXED. No changes here.
"Bug report life cycle": The new status could be set from {UNCONFIRMED,
NEW, ASSIGNED, REOPENED} and could be transfered into {UNCONFIRMED, NEW,
ASSIGNED, REOPENED, RESOLVED}.
Comments / arguments?
andre
PS: Underscores in the status name are needed as far as I know.
Please keep opinions for other email threads that are about renaming
some other Bugzilla stati, or better linking between Bugzilla and
Gerrit, or automatic status setting in Bugzilla when a patch is in
Gerrit, or somehow distinguishing in Bugzilla between the situations
"fix merged into code repository", "fix released in MW tarball" and "fix
deployed on an MW server". I hereby thank you kindly! :)
--
Andre Klapper | Wikimedia Bugwrangler
http://blogs.gnome.org/aklapper/
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