One Bugzilla report per distro version or one for all?

[Marc Deslauriers]

On Thu, 2006-05-11 at 18:34 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> The problem you run into is then you set yourself up for having to
> release all or nothing.  If distro A is holding up release of fixed
> packages for distro B thats not a good thing.  If we want our pushing
> tools to close bugs accordingly (like they do with Core) then we're
> probably going to have to separate these by distributions.
> 

Don't we usually release updates for all distros at the same time? For
Legacy, it was a PITA when we tried to have a bug per distro.

> Now to use mozilla again, why couldn't we push all 4 products into one
> bug report?  20 bugs down to 5 bugs is a pretty big drop.  And there
> could be a tracking bug that has all the info, and sub-bugs filed in
> each distro to be the place holder for when said package goes out.  This
> allows a package to go out, allows a pushing system to close a bug
> associated w/ a package update, and allows a top level bug to easily
> track the progress of each affected distro.
> 

Four products can result in four different update advisories. Wouldn't a
pushing system have trouble figuring out if the bug can be closed
automatically or not?

Marc.