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Committer: Canonical.com Patch Queue Manager
Date: 2011-05-04 12:10:51 UTC
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(jelmer) Small fixes to developer documentation. (Jonathan Riddell)

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When you file a bug as a Bazaar developer or active user, if you feel

confident in doing so, make an assessment of status and importance at the

time you file it, rather than leaving it for someone else. It's more

efficient to change the importance if someone else feel's it's higher or

efficient to change the importance if someone else feels it's higher or

lower, than to have someone else edit all bugs.

It's more useful to actually ship bug fixes than to garden the bug

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time updating this if you don't immediately know: its not critical

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that it be set.

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.. _`bug 163694`: https://bugs.launchpad.net/malone/+bug/163694

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.. _`bug 163694`: https://bugs.launchpad.net/launchpad/+bug/163694

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Bug Importance

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separate work to get it into that release.

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The News File

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Release Notes

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Most bugs that are fixed should be mentioned in a `NEWS

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<../en/release-notes/NEWS.html>`_ file entry,

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Most bugs that are fixed should be mentioned in the `Release Notes

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<../en/release-notes/>`_ for the forthcoming version,

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including the bug number.

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(Exceptions might be bugs that are not at all user visible.)

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