Protocol for fixed bugs

[Lucian Holland <le...@decisionsoft.com>]

Hi,

I have had a look round on the website, but I can't find anything that 
describes what I'm supposed to do once a bug I've reported has been fixed 
in CVS (cue someone pointing out the really obvious bit of text that 
describes exactly this....). I've been assuming that I should retest the 
latest version from CVS and mark the bug as VERIFIED if the code passes my 
tests... is this right? Should I just be leaving it alone for one of the 
committers to verify, or should I actually be marking it as CLOSED?

Thanks,

Lucian

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Re: Protocol for fixed bugs

[Joseph Kesselman <ke...@us.ibm.com>]

It's very helpful if the folks who originally reported bugs test the fix,
using their own data and environment, just in case what the developers
found isn't exactly the same problem you're actually seeing in the field.
If you do so and the fix solves the problem, then yes, marking it VERIFIED
is appreciated.

If you don't, the general assumption is that "silence eventually gives
consent".

(I've been known to mark bugs CLOSED as soon as I check in the fix, when
I'm sufficiently sure it's actually the right change. Officially, I think
that's considered sloppy practice. The better approach is for the
developers to append a "fix posted, please verify" note to the Bugzilla
entry and wait a reasonable time for either thanks or objections before
closing the bug..)

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Joe Kesselman, IBM Next-Generation Web Technologies: XML, XSL and more.
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got bitten by a radioactive spider." -- Rafe Culpin, in r.m.filk


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