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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jay Pipes [mailto:jaypipes at gmail.com]
> Sent: 28 February 2011 20:02
> To: Ewan Mellor
> Cc: Justin Santa Barbara; openstack at lists.launchpad.net
> Subject: Re: [Openstack] How to deal with 'tangential' bugs?
> 
> On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 8:15 PM, Ewan Mellor
> <Ewan.Mellor at eu.citrix.com> wrote:
> > If the “known_bugs” list isn’t being well received, how about this:
> >
> > # TODO(ewanm): Enable once bug #21212 is fixed
> >
> > if False:
> >             assert(something)
> >
> > And then put a comment on bug #21212 saying “please also enable the
> > following unit tests when you fix this bug”.
> 
> Hmm, I think the above has just as much chance (or more!) of producing
> stale unit tests.
> 
> My thinking on this issue remains the following, repeated from the bug
> in OP:
> 
> This is the way I deal with it:
> 
> When you run into the bug:
> * If it is a bug ONLY in code that you have just added in your branch,
> then just fix the bug
> * If it is a bug that is reproducible in trunk (i.e. not *just* the
> topic branch you're working in):
>   (1) File the bug in Launchpad
>   (2) Do not fix the bug in your topic branch
>   (3) If you want to assign yourself to the bug you just filed, then:
>     a. Branch a bugfix branch from your local *trunk* branch (NOT your
> topic branch)
>     b. Add a test case to your bugfix branch that will trigger the bug
>     c. Patch code to fix the bug and pass the test case
>     d. Push to LP with --fixes=lp:XXXX where XXX is the bug number
>     e. Propose for merging your bugfix branch into trunk
> 
> At this point, return to working on your original topic branch and
> continue coding. If you *must* have the fix for the bug you just
> reported, then do:
> 
> bzr shelve --all
> bzr merge ../bugXXX && bzr commit -m "Merge fix for XXX"
> bzr unshelve 1
> 
> If you don't absolutely have to have the fix for bug XXX in your topic
> branch, don't merge it, since there's really no need to...

All that is fine, but it doesn't help in the situation that Justin was discussing.  He's talking about a case where you're affected by a bug, but you can't fix it yourself.

Your procedures above require you to fix the bug that you've found (or wait for someone else to fix the bug) before your topic branch can be merged.  He's trying to avoid blocking the topic branch merge because of a tangential bug.

Ewan.