[CMake] CMake bug tracker discussion

[Pau Garcia i Quiles]

On Fri, Dec 10, 2010 at 7:56 PM, Alan W. Irwin
<irwin at beluga.phys.uvic.ca> wrote:

>> On the other hand, on KDE, when we moved to KDE4, we closed almost all
>> KDE3-related bugs without checking if they had been fixed. It did not
>> made too much sense to keep bug reports around unless they were
>> feature requests.
>
> That sounds like you would support version-based (as opposed to
> time-based) bug report closing.
>
> To be specific what would you think of a new bugtracker policy to
> close all bugs automatically that were submitted for old versions of
> CMake with the message, "please reopen this bug if it still applies to
> CMake-2.<N>"? Such a policy seems reasonable to me (especially if the
> old version cutoff is sufficiently in the past, e.g., close all bugs
> relevant to CMake-2.<N-2> when the 2.<N> series starts) and avoids the
> implicit bad message to bug reporters of a time-based policy that we
> both dislike so much.

That looks reasonable to me for "plain" bugreports but not for feature
requests or any bugreport which includes a proposed patch

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Pau Garcia i Quiles
http://www.elpauer.org
(Due to my workload, I may need 10 days to answer)