[Qgis-developer] Closing tickets not fixed in LTR

[Sandro Santilli]

On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 06:31:34AM +1000, Nyall Dawson wrote:
> On 13 May 2015 at 06:21, Giovanni Manghi <giovanni.manghi at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> See hub.qgis.org/issues/3792 for an example.
> >> Opinions welcome.
> >
> > in cases like the above does not make sense to me leave the ticket
> > open: the issue is fixed in master and for some reason it cannot be
> > backported.
> 
> +1. I think fixed in master should mean the ticket is closed.
> Otherwise the bug tracker will become impossible to navigate and
> filter by outstanding issues...
>
> Can we have a tag or category or something for "possible backport" as
> a better way of tracking these issues?

What about using "Target Version".
A bug fixed in master can be closed as long as it's "Target Version"
is master.
If someone thinks it should be also fixed in a stable branch, she could
change "Target Version" to the next stable release and re-open it.

(that's what I usually do)

--strk;