[cmake-developers] Pushing to next and closing bugs?

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Tuesday 06 July 2010, Eric Noulard wrote:
> 2010/7/5 Bill Hoffman <bill.hoffman at kitware.com>:>
>
> > So, although not perfect, I prefer to close the bug when it is checked in
> > to next.   My reason is that we have wayyyy too many bugs open as it is.
> >  I don't want to have to wait on the reporter to close it, as often times
> > they have lost interest and gone away never to come back anyway. They can
> > always reopen it as they often do.
>
> Ok then, may be setting the bug to resolved when in next
> and close it when merged in master would be better?
> That way the Reporter may get a chance to confirm the fix is OK and
> we are sure that if ever the next-->master switch does not occur
> (for any reason) we do not claim to have fixed the bug if it is not in
> any release.

As Bill also said, I wouldn't rely on the bug reporter for this. And I would 
also prefer not having to rely on myself to remember to change the bug 
from "Resolved" to "Closed" when the patch is merged from next into master.

Alex