CVS Flags: Clarifying flag statuses

Jon Ciesla limb at jcomserv.net
Thu Feb 15 21:01:36 UTC 2007


> fedora-cvs BLANK
> Default status, means nothing.

+1

> fedora-cvs ?
> I want CVS admin attention to deal with the request that I wrote in a
> Bugzilla comment, preferably at the same time fedora-cvs was set to ?.

+1

> The states that are unclear are...
>
> fedora-cvs -
> fedora-cvs +
> notting brought up the good point that setting + at least sends an
> informative e-mail indicating that a request was done, so the
> reviewer/owner knows to go ahead with importing and building.  Aside
> from this however, is there any value to +?
>
> Should - be used at all?
>
> Perhaps in addition to writing a comment like, "You did not provide
> enough information to do this CVS request."  Or "Your request was bad
> for some reason, like changing owner for a package that you clearly do
> not own and I don't see permission from the owner or a FESCO decision."
>

Deprecate - and have + be set by the CVS admin.  I think that'd be my
preference.

+$0.02.

Jon

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