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Re: Bug states, Bugzilla docs (was: Re: Use of "SUSPENDED" in Bugzilla)
On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 9:30 PM, Joseph S. Myers
<joseph@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Feb 2012, Roland McGrath wrote:
>
>> I concur with Carlos's assessment of how to treat SUSPENDED.
>> In fact, I've never been clear on what that state was really for.
>> I think the wiki should explicitly describe all the bugzilla states
>> in a tabular form that makes it easier to look up.
>
> I have added a table to
> <http://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/bugzilla/procedures> as a summary of
> states.
>
> I think we now have adequate documentation of Bugzilla practices at
> <http://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/bugzilla/procedures> and
> <http://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Bug_Triage>, with information for bug
> reporters at <http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/bugs.html> that is also
> sufficient and current. ?The bits about milestones are marked as possibly
> non-current since we need more experience to work out what's useful in
> release management.
>
> I don't think we have a major need now for any more documentation (beyond
> the list of default CCs) or proposals regarding bug management in general,
> but I'm sure more issues will come up as people work on bugs; as and when
> people find such issues they should propose solutions and update the wiki
> as appropriate (but for the most part documented procedure will need to
> follow practice).
I've just added a table of the list of default CCs.
Cheers,
Carlos.