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LCA: Disintermediating distributions

LCA: Disintermediating distributions

Posted Feb 7, 2008 21:50 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: LCA: Disintermediating distributions by zooko
Parent article: LCA: Disintermediating distributions

Threading of bug report comment threads, with individual thread termini 
having their own closedness state, branchpoints inheriting the closedness 
state of their downstream termini, and the bug as a whole marked as closed 
when all termini are closed or when the owner closes it...

... well, I can dream, can't I? Anyway, it's only a bit more than what 
threaded newsreaders were doing in 1988.


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LCA: Disintermediating distributions

Posted Feb 7, 2008 23:01 UTC (Thu) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501) [Link]

Apart from the coolness factor, can you give any practical advantages?

What I read from your description is that when you submit a bug report you really can't be
sure about its state. Until it got merged by "upstream". 

So reporting bugs becomes more time consuming.

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