1 Aug
2008
1 Aug
'08
4:10 p.m.
In other words, there is no need to ask the release managers for permission to apply to branches/release as long as tests are clean. The whole point of doing a beta is to shake these user detected bugs out of the woodwork and apply the resulting fixes in time for the release.
When the bug is detected outside the regression tests, maybe a test should be added to check that the bug is no more present.
That is normal good practice anyway: any bug should ideally be reproduced first, test added, and then fixed. Unfortunately that doesn't help if the problem is specific to a platform/compiler we don't have regression tests for :-( John.