Re: Proposal for a Backport tracker

[Loic Dachary <loic@dachary.org>]

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On 21/05/2015 15:38, Abhishek L wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Nathan Cutler writes:
> 
>>> * a backport issue is created in the "Backport" tracker and is 
>>> "Related" to the original issue
>>
>> Hi Loic:
>>
>> I like the idea of having backport tickets in a separate Redmine
>> subproject/issue tracker. In fact, I would go even a step further and
>> have separate subprojects for each target version (hammer backports,
>> firefly backports).
> 
> Agree with the idea of seperate subproject. 

Another (I mean in addition to what I wrote in reply to Nathan) against subprojects is that existing custom queries would no longer display the backport issues. For instance http://tracker.ceph.com/projects/ceph/issues?query_id=47 is frequently used and does *not* display subprojects because Ceph is the parent project of all other projects and it would display all their issues. If there was a subproject for backports, it would not show. And if I'm not mistaken there is no way to say : "display issues from these subprojects and ignore the others". 

> Though I'm not having a
> strong opinion on whether subprojects are needed for each version;
> probably for issues which have multiple backports ie. backports to both
> firefly & hammer for instance it might be a little bit more bookkeeping,
> though from a maintainer standpoint; it is easier having a seperate
> subproject, so either way is okay. 
> 
>> Having all, e.g. hammer, backports in one place is advantageous in
>> pretty much every way I can think of: easier to see what has been
>> done, what needs to be done, easier to search, easier to automate,
>> less risk of munging something not related to backports...
>>
> 
> Agree, from a scripting standpoint, we could develop some tools to ease
> out the process better, which should it make it easier in backports down
> the line.
> 

I think we can do that by creating a tracker. It would be in addition to the Bug, Fix, Documentation etc. trackers that are already in place.

Cheers

-- 
Loïc Dachary, Artisan Logiciel Libre


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