Notify about a bug

[Peter2108]

I just ran into bug #6138 which is two years old now. There is a patch
supplied but it has not made it into the version I am using (1.1 rc1,
11,332). Is there anyway to tell the Django Trace to notify me by
email when this bug is updated?

Thanks,

Peter

[Karen Tracey]

Since you've commented on the ticket, you'll automatically get mail when anyone updates the ticket.  The other way to ensure you get updates in email is to add yourself to the cc list.

As for why the patch has not been checked in -- the person who supplied the patch subsequently marked the ticket as "patch needs improvement" noting that the patch addressed only one aspect of the reported problem.  Since then no one has supplied a complete patch.  If you'd like to see the problem fixed, contributing a complete path would make the ticket more likely to move along in the process.  I also don't see any tests in the existing patch, nor any reason why they wouldn't be necessary, so that is another thing a complete patch would likely need to include before the fix made it into the code base.

Karen

[Peter2108]

>
> Since you've commented on the ticket, you'll automatically get mail when
> anyone updates the ticket.  The other way to ensure you get updates in email
> is to add yourself to the cc list

Good.
.

>
> As for why the patch has not been checked in -- the person who supplied the
> patch subsequently marked the ticket as "patch needs improvement" noting
> that the patch addressed only one aspect of the reported problem.

True - but that was March 08 and in Aug 08 a new patch was added.
Still I'd be happy to 'claim'
the bug and go over it again.

Peter

[Karen Tracey]

On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 4:02 AM, Peter2108 <pe...@monicol.co.uk> wrote:

>

> As for why the patch has not been checked in -- the person who supplied the
> patch subsequently marked the ticket as "patch needs improvement" noting
> that the patch addressed only one aspect of the reported problem.

True - but that was March 08 and in Aug 08 a new patch was added.
Still I'd be happy to 'claim'
the bug and go over it again.

The "patch needs improvement" flag wasn't unchecked.  If the new patch fixes the reason it had been checked then it should be unchecked, otherwise without doing close analysis of all the comments and dates for when things were done and when the patch was updated it's impossible to see that the reason for "patch needs improvement" might have been addressed.

Karen