Can a triager consider to set CLOSED NEXTRELEASE?

[Karel Volný]

ok, thanks for the clarification

btw,

"The resolutions CANTFIX, WONTFIX, and WORKSFORME are for use by 
maintainers only, and *are self-explanatory*."

- oh my ...

K.

Dne Čt 24. září 2009 09:09:15 Adam Williamson napsal(a):
> On Thu, 2009-09-24 at 08:57 +0200, Karel Volný wrote:
> > >  You can't close a bug filed on a
> > >  stable release as CLOSED RAWHIDE. It's up to the
> > > maintainer, now, to choose whether he intends to fix this
> > > for 11 as well as Rawhide. If he does, he can make the fix
> > > and then do CLOSED ERRATA. If he only wants to fix in
> > > Rawhide, he can do CLOSED WONTFIX with a comment that the
> > > bug is fixed in Rawhide but won't be fixed for 11.
> >
> > ahem, I have to disagree a bit (or correct my understanding
> > of the workflow :-))
> >
> > Bugzilla help at
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/page.cgi?id=fields.html#status
> > says:
> 
> This is not the canonical reference for Fedora, as it says at
>  the top of the page:
> 
> "Note: Bugs reported against Fedora products have a slightly
>  different life cycle which is described in more detail here."
> 
> 'here' links to
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/BugStatusWorkFlow .
>  That is the canonical reference to Fedora. The page on
>  redhat.com is the canonical reference for RHEL.
> 
> > on the other hand, CLOSED WONTFIX cannot be used:
> >
> > WONTFIX
> >  The problem described is a bug which will never be fixed.
> > This may happen when there is significant divergence from
> > upstream. An explaination of why this resolution has been
> > chosen should be supplied.
> >
> > - if the bug is fixed in rawhide, you can't say that it will
> > never be fixed
> 
> Yes, you can, if the bug is filed on a specific Fedora release
>  which is not Rawhide. A bug which is filed against Fedora 11
>  is not fixed unless an update is released for Fedora 11. If
>  it is fixed in Rawhide but no update is ever shipped for F11,
>  and the reporter and maintainer do not agree to re-assign the
>  bug to Rawhide, the correct resolution is WONTFIX, as the
>  maintainer has chosen not to fix the bug in the release
>  against which it was reported.
> 
> This is somewhat a consequence of the fact that Bugzilla does
>  not work well for tracking bugs against multiple releases of
>  a distribution, which leads to these somewhat odd-looking
>  cases. But it's all we've got to work with.
> 

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