[ros-users] Closing issues only when fixes reach the release repository

[Dirk Thomas]

The visibility of which fixes have made it into a release of a package is provided with the change log of a package.
Recently those information are not maintained very well in Wiki pages as they require quite some effort to maintain.

The new REP specifying in-source change log files will hopefully improve that situation significantly.
Furthermore these information would then also be available in the Debian package as well as in the Wiki.

- Dirk


On 05.03.2013 13:50, Austin Hendrix wrote:
> I've occasionally had this problem as well.
>
> I'm not sure github supports this, but on other ticketing systems, you can move a bug to a "release pending" state once the change has been tested and merged into the main repository.
>
> On github, I would probably do this by opening a meta-issue for each release, and then all fixes that go into that release can reference it. That way we can close individual issues once they're
> committed, and then close the meta-issue when the release happens.
>
> Thoughts?
> -Austin
>
> On 03/05/2013 01:47 PM, Ken Conley wrote:
>> In general, that's not a common practice with bug trackers.  Some of the reasons include:
>>
>>  * There are often multiple release branches -- do you close it when it hits the first branch, or close it when it hits all possible branches?
>>  * It makes it much harder to close bugs because it creates a huge lag between when someone works on a bug and when they have to go back, find the bug, and mark it closed.
>>  * The person working on the bug and the person creating a release may be different people.
>>
>> Changelists for releases are the best place for this sort of information.  Also, including the version number at the time of the fix (or intended version number the fix should appear in) can help
>> mitigate the search issue.
>>
>>  - Ken
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 1:33 PM, Piyush <piyushk at gmail.com <mailto:piyushk at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>     Hey folks,
>>
>>     It seems like issues on the ros repository on github are closed as
>>     soon as a fix is pushed to source, but have not made it to the release
>>     repository. Would it make more sense to tag them as fixed but close
>>     the issue only once they've made it to release? It seems to be taking
>>     me a long time to trace out whether an updated version of a package
>>     (for instance catkin) has been released with a fix since the bug was
>>     reported.
>>
>>     Thoughts?
>>
>>     Thanks,
>>     Piyush
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