new-ish patch statuses

[Luis Villa <louie ximian com>]

Hey, so:

The new Bugzilla has a patch editing tool. It's sweet, I recommend all
maintainers check it out.

Relevant for this email is that patches can now have statuses.[1]
Statuses are cool, because once we fix a couple bugs[2] you'll be able
to query for 'show me all patches that have status ____'.

Because statuses are great for storing patch information, and keywords
are suboptimal, I'm going to nuke the BLOCKED_BY_FREEZE[3] keyword and
turn it into the patch status 'accepted-commit_after_freeze'. Religious
use of this and the 'accepted-commit_now' statuses should make life much
better for the new contributors we like to draw in.

Thanks- sorry about the abrupt change from keyword to status-
Luis

[1]  like 'accepted' or
'this_patch_makes_me_want_to_vomit_blood_repeatedly_from_my_eye_sockets'.
[2] 139293 and 138144
[3] Currently 40 bugs, would be great if people think about committing
these:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?short_desc_type=substring&keywords_type=anywords&keywords=BLOCKED_BY_FREEZE


On Wed, 2004-03-10 at 10:00 -0700, Elijah P Newren wrote:
> The bugsquad has been noticing that a number of bugs had patches ready
> to be applied but got blocked by a feature/ui/string/code freeze--and in
> some cases, these bugs were forgotten and not noticed again until a freeze
> in the following release cycle.  To try to prevent that from occurring
> again, a new keyword has been added to bugzilla, BLOCKED_BY_FREEZE.  We
> would like to encourage maintainers to add this keyword to the relevant
> bugs, and to do a bugzilla query on this keyword after a thaw occurs.
> 
> Description of this keyword from
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/describekeywords.cgi:
> 
> This keyword should be used for bugs for which action can be taken by the
> maintainer once feature/ui/string/code freeze is removed, but for which
> all further actions are blocked until that time. Should be reserved for
> bugs containing a patch.
> 
> Cheers,
> Elijah
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