Comment 21 for bug 163694
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| Marius Gedminas (mgedmin) wrote Re: Fix Committed/Released distinction is inconsistent and unproductive | #21 |
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I always assumed "Fix Committed" meant "bugfix merged to trunk" while "Fix Released" meant that if the user upgraded to the last release she would no longer see the bug. As a maintainer of a few open-source projects hosted on launchpad I'd be a bit sad to see the distinction disappear.
The Maemo project has a problem where users complain about bugs marked "RESOLVED: FIXED" by saying "no it's not, I upgraded to the latest version and the bug is still there!" with the developers going back saying "it's fixed in $VCS and will be released with the next version, I just don't want to see this bug among the list of open bugs as it distracts me". I usually chime in with a suggestion to implement Launchpad-style fix-committed/