On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 11:36 AM, Paul Poulain <paul.poulain@biblibre.com>wrote:
The Workflows allow us to specify how tickets are allowed to change status, from which to which. Here's an example workflow:
* NEW (default for all incoming tickets) * ASSIGNED (to the developer working on it) * NEEDS_SIGNOFF (once a patch has been submitted) * SIGNED_OFF (after signoff) * PASSED_QA (once QA'ed successfully) * PATCH_PUSHED * RESOLVED
Speaking as a third-term release maintainer (fwiw), I would like to see an additional patch status added to be known as NEEDS BACKPORTING. This will allow for a quick search by the release maintainer to see what people expect to be backported. The simple distinction between enhancement and bug disappears once an enhancement has made its way into master and/or the current stable release and bugs are filed against it, thus making it hard to know just by looking at the git bug-branch or bugzilla nomenclature. Setting the patch status to NEEDS BACKPORTING would greatly ease this job. Kind Regards, Chris