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Postings from April 2014
We have a new status available in RT, "pending release" Here's how I think we should be using it: When we fix a bug in blead, we set the ticket to this status instead of the current "resolved" status. RT automatically sends an email to the requester, something like ======================== Thanks for reporting this issue. This issue is now fixed in the latest Perl development version. [Words might be added to the effect that if you have the time and skills, you can download and check it out]. We will send you an email when the fix is in a stable Perl version. ======================== When the stable release is made, someone goes through the tickets with this "pending release" status and bulk changes them to resolved, with the stable Perl version also set. I'm hopeful that RT can be set up to send a special email when the status changes from pending to resolved that says something like ========================= Thanks for reporting this issue. This issue is now fixed and a stable Perl containing it is available for download at http://foo ========================= We need to account for other possibilities for resolution, so this message should be generated only for this particular transition. One possibility that doesn't fit with this scenario is if the bug was fixed in an earlier Perl version, but there were no TODO tests, so we didn't notice it until now. It would be nice if the resolver would indicate in the resolution message the earliest stable Perl version the fix is in.Thread Next