Patch Statuses in Launchpad

[Scott Kitterman]

On Monday 26 May 2008 12:19, Daniel Holbach wrote:
> Reinhard Tartler schrieb:
> > How would you see bugs with patches but without the tag
> > 'patch-needs-work'?
>
> I answered that question in my initial mail.
>
> > I'd say let's do it the other way round: Bugs with proper patches should
> > have the tag 'patch-needs-review'. If a developer finds a patch not
> > acceptable, he can remove the tag. If the patch is good and ready to be
> > uploaded, he should upload a package with the bug and close the bug. If
> > he decides it should go to upstream first, replace the patch with
> > 'patch-under-upstream-review' or something.
>
> The problem is: do we expect everybody who attached a patch to know
> about the tag and use it? What do we do about the 2100 bugs that have
> patches attached? Tag them all by hand?

Which is why we should just remove the patch tag if something has been removed 
and needs more work.  In time the ones with the patch tag will be the ones 
needing review.

Scott K