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[Tim Penhey <tim.penhey@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 12 Apr 2010 21:13:39 Tom Berger wrote:
> On 12 April 2010 06:04, Tim Penhey <tim.penhey@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > As discussed before I'm tackling the JFDI approach and I'm going to get
> > the scanner to update the bug-task status [1].
> > 
> > I'd like the bug-task to be set to in-progress when it is linked to the
> > branch, and fix-committed if it is linked to a branch that was marked as
> > merged through a merge proposal.
> > 
> > Since the scanner is a script, what do you think the best approach is so
> > that the appropriate subscribers get notified?  I had a brief look at
> > the bug code but it was not clear to me exactly how to proceed.
> 
> I can't find the relevant bug or thread right now, but fwiw this was
> previously discussed and iirc the conclusion was that this might not
> be desirable. One problem I've had with this approach is that it's
> quite easy to link to a wrong bug because of a typo on the command
> line, but since the user is likely to not be subscribed to
> notifications from the bug in question, they might not discover the
> mistake immediately. I'm not sure this is really a deciding factor,
> but wanted to make sure I remind you of this problem before you
> proceed.

Acknowledged.  We are not marking it fix released, just in progress or fix 
committed

Tim