[Koha-devel] patches & bugs.koha.org

[Paul POULAIN]

Hello world,

I see a change in the wiki :
"
Contributors to Koha are encouraged to reference a bug number with every 
commit. This helps us determine the purpose of the commit and 
establishes a more searchable and understandable history. If there is no 
bug open at [[http://bugs.koha.org|bugs.koha.org]] that addresses your 
contribution, please feel free to open one and describe the bug or 
enhancement. Then, include the bug number in your commit message and set 
the "priority" field to "patch-sent". This helps us keep track of 
patches that have been contributed but not yet applied.
"

I fully agree with the idea of pointing the bug if there is one. But I 
strongly disagree about adding a bug if there is none.
For at least 2 reasons :
- it is an obviously "long" process to add a bug. If we have found a 
small & quickly fixed bug, then there is no need to add a bug imo. 
Having a complete patch comment is necessary for the ppl 
reviewing/validating the patch. But the need of a bug.koha.org is 
unclear to me (the PATCH-sent thing is not enough imo)
- we (BibLibre) have a specific internal (& french) tool for our 
customer requests. When we fix a bug discovered by a client, frankly, 
it's a loss of time to translate it to english & rewrite it to bugs.koha.org

Comments welcomed.

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