Subject: Re: VCS comparison table

From: Jakub Narebski <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2006 15:20:42 +0200

Matthieu Moy wrote:
> Jakub Narebski <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> >> If you're interested, it's called "Bugs Everywhere" and it's available here:
> >> http://panoramicfeedback.com/opensource/
> >> 
> >> New VCS backends are welcome :-D
> >
> > While SCM can (and should be usually) distributed, I think that bugtracker
> > has to be centralized.
> 
> Well, indeed, I think bug _reporting_ should be somehow centralized,
> while bug _fixing_ can be decentralized: You fix a bug, you mark it as
> fixed, and then the main branch gets the information that the bug is
> fixed when the bugfix is merged.

But you don't need much infrastructure for branch fixing. Fix it in
repository, and write bug number (you have to have centralized bugtracker
for numbers) or bug identifier in commit message. You write (or post-commit
hook writes) in bugtracker that bug was fixed in commit <commit-id>.
You tell mainline to pull from you. That's all.