When to mark a bug as STAGED
Josh DuBois
duboisj at codeweavers.com
Mon Nov 6 11:10:30 CST 2017
I was recently looking at bug 18070 in relation to a problem I had
installing Office 2010:
https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18070
The last comment asks whether the bug can be marked STAGED. In talking
with Sebastian he questioned whether it would make sense in this case,
because the patch in the staging tree which improves behavior is clearly
a hack as opposed to something which is progress toward a more permanent
solution.
To me it made sense to go ahead and mark the bug as STAGED anyhow, to
record the fact that one of the patches in the stating tree addresses
the behavior. Perhaps this is one way to help associate patchsets with
bugs so that we can tell the motivation for a particular patchset in
staging. (In this case, a URL on the bug also has information about the
motivation, here: https://dev.wine-staging.com/patches/132/ ).
So the question: If a staging patchset is more along the lines of a
dead-end hack than it is progress toward a long-term solution, should
bugs which are fixed by the patchset still be marked STAGED?
My gut differed from Sebastian's, so I thought it best to ask here to
reach a consensus.
(I can see the value either way - just looking for a standard approach.)
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