[dist-bugs] About distributed bug tracking

[Joey Hess]

Pierre Habouzit wrote:
> One thing that could probably help would be to agree with several
> important BTS authors on a bug UUID format.

I can only think of three ways to have a globally unique id that
different BTSs could agree on:

* an URL (or something very much like an url, ie "Ubuntu bug #xxxxx")
* a literal, random UUID
* some form of checksum of a previous message sent to the bug
  (either the first message, or a git-style checksum chain that
  can be traversed to find the first one)

>   Updates to the metadata _are_ problematic, and we must just provide a
> unified way to deal with them. Again, learning from git, one should not
> write different merging techniques and try to be clever for the user, it
> sometimes fails, and when it does, it does it silently, which is worse
> than requiring a few trivial efforts when a conflict arise.

Hmm, so you're saying gits multiple merge strategies are a bad thing?
I like a couple of them. :-)

-- 
see shy jo
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 189 bytes
Desc: Digital signature
URL: <http://kitenet.net/pipermail/dist-bugs/attachments/20080709/65473ff3/attachment.pgp>