Hi Dan,
Thanks for your inquiry.
Le mercredi 26 octobre 2005 à 17:21 -0700, Dan Kegel a écrit :
Jonathan, maybe what you did is good, but I thought one had to actually verify a bug as fixed before one could mark it as verified. You seem to have subverted the
VERIFIED QA has looked at the bug and the resolution and agrees that the appropriate resolution has been taken. Bugs remain in this state until the product they were reported against actually ships, at which point they become CLOSED.
Yes that's true, but in Wine the QA is mostly us and the people who report the bugs to be fixed. In Wine usually when a bug is marked as fixed and not reopened shortly after, it really means that it's fixed and thus verified. What I feel is that people reporting bugs, you and me and others actually ARE Wine's QA.
I don't think that having ~800 bugs marked as fixed since years was useful. Maybe now that they are closed, the new fixed bugs can actually be verified by some of the active QA people in Wine. There have been more activity lately in bugzilla and keeping all these old bugs fixed and not closed was not doing any good imho. Having about 10/15 bugs to verify between each snapshot is much more maintainable and can hopefully be done.
process. Did you get consensus before starting these mods?
This was discussed on IRC when quite a lot of people where online (see my message to wine-devel).
Bye,