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Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 13:58:14 +0300 (EEST)
Reply-To: Jani Taskinen <sniper@iki.fi>
To: Lukas Smith <lsmith@php.net>
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] milestone
From: sniper@iki.fi (Jani Taskinen)

On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Lukas Smith wrote:

>
> Jani Taskinen wrote:
>> 
>>     Unnecessary, you can tell the user within the closing comment
>>     in which branches you fixed the bug. Don't forget that it can
>>     CHANGE later, someone reverts the fix or the fix wasn't needed
>>     or.. you get the picture.
>
> Does it hurt though?

     Yes, if everyone doesn't use it. And it's useless as long
     as you can select only one "milestone".

> It makes it alot easier to update things if necessary. Say for example we 
> decide not to release a specific version we can easily find all the relevant 
> bug reports and update the milestone version. Also it will help reminds 
> developers to even put this information in, compared to the current state of 
> affairs where the tendency to not note anything. Finally this information will 
> be a in a fixed location in a fixed format, compared to in the comments where 
> additional comments can clutter this information away.

     We already have the fixed bugs in NEWS, that's enough.

> Finally the RM can target any relevant open bugs easily this way and quickly 
> get to them.
>
> I see only advantages and no real disadvantage.

     I see only more work.

     --Jani