[Sugar-devel] Notes on triage meeting

[Simon Schampijer]

Greg Dekoenigsberg wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 13 Feb 2009, Simon Schampijer wrote:
> 
>> Greg Dekoenigsberg wrote:
>>> erikos ran an awesome meeting.  My notes on what I think the purpose 
>>> should be:
>>>
>>> First Goal.  To go through all UNCONFIRMED bug reports and determine:
>>>
>>> * whether the bug report is a dupe.  if so, close as Duplicate.
>>>
>>> * whether the bug report is missing key info.  if so, ask questions 
>>> in bug and set status to Needinfo.
>>>
>>> * whether the bug is from a previous release and has already been 
>>> fixed. if so, close as Obsolete.
>>>
>>> * whether the bug is relatively minor.  if so, set to block next 
>>> release (right now 0.86) and set status to "new".
>>>
>>> * whether the bug is urgent.  if so, set to block current release 
>>> (right now 0.84) and set status to "new".
>>>
>>> Every bug should fit into one of these categories.
>>>
>>> How does that sound?  Simple enough to get a good triage team off and 
>>> running?
>>>
>>> --g
>>
>> Actually I would leave setting the milestone by the triage team out. I 
>> think this is the duty of the maintainer. He knows better the 
>> resources available. If the severity is a blocker - of course he will 
>> set it to 0.84 likely anyhow.
>>
>> Objections, thoughts?
>>   Simon
> 
> My thought as the sort-of-guy-who-sort-of-runs-engineering-meetings is 
> that I don't want to see any triaged bugs, ever, without a targeted 
> release.  Why?  Because I want to be able to look at "current release" 
> and know which bugs are out there.

Yeah true.

> Now, how do we set milestones?  If we can get developers to reliably go 
> clean up after triagers and assign milestons to all bugs that are in 
> such-and-such state, that's ok, I guess.  If we're all in a meeting 
> together, it's quite easy -- I just ask on IRC.  But it makes async 
> triaging a bit trickier.
> 
> --g
Hmm. For example if a triager puts the bug in 0.86 but for the 
maintainer it would have been important to fix...

Dunno, I have to think about it for a moment I guess.
    Simon