Re: Proposal for a Backport tracker

[Nathan Cutler <ncutler@suse.cz>]

> We can probably keep the original ticket in the "Pending Backport" status until all backports are resolved, as we currently do.
>
>> So the question is, what will the original ticket's status be changed to? Resolved?
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> When all backports are resolved, then we can also resolve the original ticket. Do you forsee a problem with that ?
>

Yes and no. It's a scripting problem, not a workflow problem. I'll try 
to describe the scenario I'm envisioning:

We have a simple script that loops over all tickets with status "Pending 
Backport". We run it once per week. The first week we run it, the script 
finds 3 such tickets. For each one it creates a ticket in the Backport 
tracker.

A week goes by, during which developers marked 4 more tickets "Pending 
Backport". It's time to run the script again. Since it is looping over 
all tickets marked "Pending Backport", it now finds 7 such tickets: 3 
from last week and the 4 new ones. For each one it dutifully creates a 
new ticket in the Backport tracker. Now we have duplicate Backport 
tickets for 3 bugfixes.

But I guess it will be trivial to make the script check if a Backport 
ticket is already open and refrain from opening a new one in this case.

The same script could also check further: if Backport tickets already 
exist for the bugfix and all of them are marked Resolved, then 
automatically mark the original ticket Resolved as well.

Nathan