[cmake-developers] The CMake bug tracker and "the backlog" of unresolved issues

David Cole david.cole at kitware.com
Thu Mar 10 15:25:47 EST 2011


On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 3:21 PM, David Cole <david.cole at kitware.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 3:17 PM, Alexander Neundorf <neundorf at kde.org>wrote:
>
>> On Friday 04 February 2011, David Cole wrote:
>> > On Fri, Feb 4, 2011 at 4:22 AM, Eric Noulard <eric.noulard at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > > 2011/2/4 Michael Wild <themiwi at gmail.com>:
>> > > > You could actually add a "backlog" status by customising the
>> > >
>> > > configuration:
>> > >
>> > >
>> > >
>> http://manual.mantisbt.org/manual.customizing.mantis.customizing.status.v
>> > >alues.php
>> > >
>> > > > This would be IMHO much less confusing and also much easier to use
>> when
>> > > > searching/filtering.
>> > >
>> > > +1
>> > >
>> > > I agree with Michael,
>> > > my previous proposal assumed you (Kitware)
>> > > were not willing to change your Mantis config for whatever reason.
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > --
>> > > Erk
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>> > Thanks for the feedback, guys. The "problem" is that we share the mantis
>> > tracker with several open source projects. I'll ask around today and see
>> if
>> > anybody minds adding a "backlog" status to *all* our projects. (Or maybe
>> > it's possible to add a custom status value just for the CMake
>> project...?)
>>
>> So, if I have an issue assigned to me which I don't feel like working on
>> in
>> the forseeable future I should assign it to nobody and set it to backlog ?
>>
>> Alex
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>
> Yes... That would be good.
>
> Although, if it's just that you don't feel like working on it, but it may
> be important, perhaps you should point us all to it and ask if any of us
> wants to take it instead.
>
>
> Thanks,
> David
>
>

To put something into "the backlog" officially:

- set its status to "backlog"
- assign it to "" (nobody...)

One can always look at the history of the bug if necessary to figure out who
it used to be assigned to, if anyone.
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