Re: [eigen] questions about Bugzilla workflow

[Benoit Jacob <jacob.benoit.1@xxxxxxxxx>]

>>>> Then it's enough to put a "target milestone" on the tracking bug, no
>>>> need to set it on every bug; alternatively, the same result can be
>>>> achieved by putting links to the tracking bug where people will
>>>> naturally look for it (wiki,etc).
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>>> ??? I probably was not clear. I meant that, when I fill a bug, it is
>>> much faster and simpler for me to set a target milestone than editing
>>> the "block" parameter, because for the later I have to open a new
>>> windows, search for the respective "target bug", and finally gets back
>>> to the original windows and enter its ID without making a typo...
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>> ah ok. But i think that Bugzilla supports bug aliases so you would
>> only have to enter, say, 3.0-beta3. Let me set this up.
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> ...actually, since we're talking about milestones, e.g. 3.0 or 3.1,
> you'd only have to type 3.0 or 3.1 which is really quick to type.

This is done!
See in the blocks/depends lists, you can now see strings such as 3.0,
3.1, 3.0-beta3...
You can use them instead of bug IDs anywhere, and they are
automatically displayed instead of bug IDs.

The way to set a bug alias is to edit the bug title, which now shows
an "alias" field.

Is this satisfactory? Do we still need milestones?

Benoit


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>>>>> 2 - with milestones you can have a list of all blocking issues for
>>>>> each milestone integrated in a wiki page.
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>>>> Hm I'm not sure what a milestone gives you here that a tracking bug
>>>> doesn't? First, the dependency tree is such a list,
>>>> http://eigen.tuxfamily.org/bz/showdependencytree.cgi?id=25&hide_resolved=1
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>>>> Second, if you were thinking about search results, you can do that
>>>> also with just a tracking bug, although you only get the bugs that are
>>>> directly blocking, i.e. it doesn't go recursively:
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>>>> http://eigen.tuxfamily.org/bz/buglist.cgi?query_format=advanced&field0-0-0=blocked&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&type0-0-0=anywords&value0-0-0=48
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>>>> To construct this kind of search, under Search click "Advanced Search"
>>>> and then at the bottom, "Advanced Searching Using Boolean Charts".
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>>>>> For 1, we could workaround it using aliases. For 2, the dependency
>>>>> graph is probably fine too, maybe unless there are too many bugs and
>>>>> the graph gets too big, I don't know.
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>>>>> So I would say more or less even, though milestones look slightly easier to me.
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