[Libreoffice] Bugzilla handling of multiple branches

[Cor Nouws]

Noel Power wrote (18-08-11 11:16)

>> For example, bug #40079; it is fixed in master, so I closed it. But
>> now it shows up as not blocking "LibreOffice 3.4 most annoying bugs"
>> anymore (it is striked out),
>
> when we want a bug to be fixed in the 3.4 release then we need to get
> the patch into the general dev branch associated with 3.4 ( e.g. the
> libreoffice-3-4 branch ) and also the release branch e.g.
> libreoffice-3-4-3. There are rules though about committing to these
> branches. Currently you need the approval of 1 reviewer to commit to the
> libreoffice-3-4 branch and the approval of 3 reviewers to commit to the
> release branch. I have already pushed the patch to 3.4 and//I already
> asked for a review so that this bug can go into libreoffice-3-4-3. It is
> a good idea to monitor the mailing list and the information that the
> patch was pushed to master, 3.4 and request for approval to commit to
> libreoffice-3-4-3 is all under that same thread you started about the
> patch for that issue.

This explanation still does not cover the case where a bug ís fixed in 
master, but not in the release A branch, where it is listed as annoying. 
Having is stricken out, cause of the fix in master, erroneously gives 
the impression that it is fixed in the release A.x


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