Bryce Harrington-5 wrote:
"fix released" is really an inaccurate term. Even in Ubuntu development it really just means "fixed in development", not in a released version.
For Ubuntu it means that a package that fixes the bug is available for the official repositories. On top of that, the bugs are tracked separately in different versions, and are marked Fix Released only when really fixed in the given distro version (a package is available). For me this is fair enough.
For upstream projects marking bugs fixed in SVN is just an abuse of the bug status, because there is no release where this bug is fixed. Calling SVN snapshot builds "releases" is just weird, because their quality is not suitable for general use, and they are not supposed to be make it into distributions or official Windows installers.
Bryce Harrington-5 wrote:
Regarding consternation of users over what "fix released" means, I suspect that just getting a release out would assuage that.
It would fix the problem temporarily until bugs in the new release are found and fixed. The Fix Committed status, when used to mark anything that's not in an official release but already fixed, is just way more useful - this way the user knows what can he expect from the upcoming stable version or the current development version (in fact it can help make him a tester!), and the devs know how much progress has been made with regards to long standing bugs. It provides more information than lumping Fix Released and Fix Committed together.
Regards, Krzysztof Kosiński.