Re: Our use of the "fixed" tag in debbugs

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se> writes:

> We currently use the debbugs "fixed" tag almost exclusively in this way:
>
>     tags NNN fixed
>     close NNN 29.1
>     thanks
>
> This is fine by me, no change needed here.

debbugs-gnu just sends "close NNN 29.1" now, I think?  It was changed in:

commit 5c4039534609603e279c42e1ea390308559fce37
Author:     Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
AuthorDate: Mon Apr 19 16:22:21 2021 +0200

    Don't set tag "fixed"

Because of this:

> There is a slight
> duplication in that we say that it's fixed twice, but that's minor.
>
> But I note that the developer documentation says that "fixed" actually
> means something slightly different:
>
>     This bug is fixed or worked around, but there's still an issue that
>     needs to be resolved.
>
>     https://debbugs.gnu.org/Developer.html#tags

[...]

> For example, I just tagged Bug#50985 ("Merging gnulib for Emacs 28.1?")
> as "fixed".
>
>     https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=50985
>
> The idea here is that, yes, the issue is mainly taken care of but let's
> wait with closing it until we feel more confident about the fallout.

Yup.

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