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Posted May 15, 2008 21:46 UTC (Thu) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501)
In reply to: Merging by rvfh
Parent article: Distributed bug tracking

So what is it better than today? A centralized place for meta-data: the bug tracking system.

We have the metadata centralized. There are many places where you have hacks to refer beterrn
the source and the bugs database (e.g: specially-formatted commit messages close bugs,
trac-style formatting of commit messages)


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Merging

Posted May 16, 2008 7:34 UTC (Fri) by rvfh (subscriber, #31018) [Link]

I got your point, but do you get mine?

What was being discussed was the merging of metadata such as priority and all the other stuff,
which could be problematic on a decentralised system (comments/patches are the easy part), and
I was suggesting to _not_ automatise and risk making mistakes (e.g. priority inversion), but
rather let someone (human being) decide and solve the conflict: the triager.

A server does not delegate, a triager can, so this is a marginal and dynamic centralisation,
rather than a full and static one, like e.g. Bugzilla.

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