Comment 3 for bug 659629

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Robert Collins (lifeless) wrote : Re: [Bug 659629] [NEW] mistakes in pqm commit message should be ignorable

On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 8:36 AM, Ursula Junque <email address hidden> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 12:40 AM, Robert Collins
> <email address hidden>wrote:
>
>> More broadly: any metadata we use *will* be wrong from time to time,
>> so we need to accomodate that.
>>
>
>
> Robert, is this the "partial branches that cannot be landed alone" problem?
> Or just misconnections between bugs and commits? If it's the latter, we can
> handle today using the qa-untestable tag, but I agree we should handle such
> cases more appropriately.

We can use this bug for 'misconnections between bugs and commits', but
the topic is a broad one: any data has to be editable to permit
correcting mistakes. Some sources of data are harder to edit than
others, so in qatagger we may want to mirror the source data and
permit editing the mirror.
/handwave