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Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 14:44:36 +0000
To: Perforce Defect Tracking Integration Project staff <p4dti-staff@ravenbrook.com>
From: Richard Brooksby <rb@ravenbrook.com>
Subject: Distinguished state to map to "closed"
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This is a record of a design decision made by RB and GDR while 
working on automatic configuration generation from TeamTrack.

We decided to allow the administrator to specify a special TeamTrack 
state to map to the "closed" Perforce state, rather than its own 
name.  This is to allow users of the Perforce Windows GUI and 
Perforce plug-ins to submit and "close" a job at the same time 
(requirement 45).

According to Kathy at Perforce, it's unlikely that the Windows GUI or 
the plug-ins will support choice of the fix keyword on submit in time 
for the beta, and perhaps not in time for general release, and we 
found that this was a reasonable workaround during the alpha 
programme.

This will need to go in the AG with an explanation.

References to this document needs to be inserted in the sources where 
GDR has today written an approximate reference (to 'Distinguished 
state to map to "closed"').