[Libreoffice-qa] [ANN] Referencing bugs in commits

[Markus Mohrhard]

Hey,

2012/2/14 Michael Stahl <mstahl at redhat.com>:
> On 14/02/12 17:48, Andras Timar wrote:
>> 2012/2/14 Ivan Timofeev <timofeev.i.s at gmail.com>:
>>> On 14.02.2012 19:31, Michael Meeks wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, 2012-02-14 at 16:16 +0100, Jan Holesovsky wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Markus has implemented a nice feature that should help keeping the bugs
>>>>> up to date: whenever you are committing / pushing to git, and you
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>        ooh ! really lovely :-)
>>>>
>>>>        Great work Markus !
>>>
>>>
>>> Indeed!!! :) I'm always exceedingly amazed at the work Markus do as a
>>> free-time contributor.
>>>
>>> Just a question:
>>> Is it possible somehow include the information about a target version?
>>>
>> IMHO target version is not known at commit time. Developer commits the
>> fix to master and optionally asks for cherry picking. Whoever closes
>> the bug should update the target version in bugzilla.
>
> the way i got used to is to add one "target:x.y.z " for every branch
> that the fix got committed to, for example:
> "target:3.4.6 target:3.5.1 target:3.6.0beta0"
>
> it looks possible to do that from a git hook as well, incrementally
> (i.e. the field is extended if the current target of the branch isn't in
> the list already).
>
> but it would require that the hook knows which is the next release that
> is created from every branch at push time...
>

That should be possible. I have some ideas based on Kendy's first
implementation for that. It should be even possible to adapt the
target version from 3.5.1 to 3.5.0 if a commit is pushed to 3-5 and
later to 3-5-0.

I will think a bit about it and hopefully find a good solution soon.

Regards,
Markus