[Libreoffice] Bugzilla handling of multiple branches

[Noel Power]

On 18/08/11 10:39, Cor Nouws wrote:
> 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
>
>
Well I wasn't really trying to answer that question but more give the 
developer-centric detail about getting a patch into the dev/release 
branches. But... it f the bug has been fixed, it is fixed right, it has 
to be marked as such, and in this case approval is asked for the 
specific release, if approval isn't given then doesn't it sort of make 
sense that the bug is struck off for that release anyway if we aren't 
going to fix it?

Noel