Newsgroups: php.internals,php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:19616 php.internals:19617 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 26358 invoked by uid 1010); 14 Oct 2005 14:42:43 -0000 Delivered-To: ezmlm-scan-internals@lists.php.net Delivered-To: ezmlm-internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 26343 invoked from network); 14 Oct 2005 14:42:43 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 14 Oct 2005 14:42:43 -0000 X-Host-Fingerprint: 66.14.118.59 bdsl.66.14.118.59.gte.net Received: from ([66.14.118.59:11255] helo=localhost.localdomain) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.0 beta r(6323M)) with SMTP id 23/15-04211-3E3CF434 for ; Fri, 14 Oct 2005 10:42:43 -0400 To: internals@lists.php.net,Jani Taskinen Message-ID: <434FC3DD.2000505@php.net> Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2005 10:42:37 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051011) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 CC: Lukas Smith , internals@lists.php.net References: <8A.A0.54476.5302E434@pb1.pair.com> <434E33F6.8090408@php.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Posted-By: 66.14.118.59 Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] milestone From: davey@php.net (Davey Shafik) Jani Taskinen wrote: > 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 Which nobody is asking *You* to do. If someone else is willing to put in the time and effort to at least *try* to improve things, at least let them waste their own time as they see fit (if that turns out to be the case). Quit being such a wet blanket and lets see if this does help in practice. - Davey