Please fix your bugs in release instead of rawhide!

[Chuck Anderson]

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 05:49:10PM +0100, Martin Sourada wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-03-10 at 03:18 +0100, Christoph Wickert wrote:
> > A note to all Fedora maintainers and especially to the Red Hat people
> > who are involved in development every day:
> > 
> >            Please fix your bugs [1] in the release they were
> >          filed against instead of just closing them NEXTRELASE!
> > 
> > I know it sounds slinky to just close everything NEXTRELEASE and I know
> > I sucks to get reports of bugs you've already fixed. But in 99% of all
> > cases it shouldn't be to hard to get the fix also into the stable
> > release.
> > 
> Hm... I am getting confused here. I thought NEXTRELEASE relates to
> package release not distro release, whereas RAWHIDE is what is supposed
> to be used when fixed in rawhide... At least one of us definitely needs
> to be wrong...

If that were the case, then CURRENTRELEASE would make no sense.