[Gluster-devel] FYI: change in bugzilla version(s) starting with the 3.9 release

[Kaleb S. KEITHLEY]

On 08/17/2016 12:11 PM, Atin Mukherjee wrote:
> 
> 
> On Wednesday 17 August 2016, Kaleb S. KEITHLEY <kkeithle at redhat.com
> <mailto:kkeithle at redhat.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Hi,
> 
>     In today's Gluster Community Meeting it was tentatively agreed that we
>     will change how we report the GlusterFS version for glusterfs bugs.
> 
>     Starting with the 3.9 release there will only be a "3.9" version in
>     bugzilla; compared to the current scheme where there are, e.g., 3.8.0,
>     3.8.1, ..., 3.8.x versions in bugzilla.
> 
> 
> May I ask what is the benefit we are going to get from this change?
> Personally I am more inclined towards the existing option as users can
> select the version and do not have to mention it in the comment.
> Sometimes users may forget to report the version in the comment and we
> need to do back and forth on this, instead having a specific release
> version on which the bug can be filed looks a better option IMO.

Personally I'm ambivalent about it, but a handful of people want it.

It's a nuisance to add new versions to bugzilla every few weeks, but
it's not "End of the World" hard, it's just a detail.

-- 

Kaleb