[Sugar-devel] Sugar Labs bug tracker used by the OLPCA team?

[Rafael Ortiz]

On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 6:12 PM, James Cameron <quozl at laptop.org> wrote:

> On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 04:52:51PM -0500, Rafael Ortiz wrote:
> > Although, I really like this QA workflow, I'm not sure if this will
> > prevent people from the community to follow the workflow, e.g an
> > ''outsider'' or an activity developer that wants to close a bug or do
> > follow-ups that require a change of state on the workflow. For
> > starters there should be a wiki page where to document this in order
> > to point people to the process.
> >
> > In my opinion this could be yet another wall to enter sugar
> > development.
>
> I agree.
>
> I also don't like the workflow.  I think organisations should use their
> own trackers to represent work they plan to do for themselves, and use
> Sugar tracker as well for work that Sugar Labs may be involved in.
>
> Thus a ticket in the Sugar Labs tracker would be closed when the problem
> is fixed to the satisfaction of Sugar Labs.  (e.g. fix committed to git).
>
> Thus a ticket in the downstream organisation tracker would be closed
> when the problem is fixed to the satisfaction of the downstream
> organisation.  (e.g. tested on hardware).
>
> I don't think it is likely that these events will happen at the same
> time, or in the same sequence, and so I don't think it is right to delay
> closure.
>
> This plan may expose the Sugar Labs tracker to a lot more event data
> that doesn't really benefit the Sugar Labs community that much.
>
> If Sugar Labs is happy with it, go for it.  I'll work within the
> restrictions.  I don't have to like it though.
>
>
Fully agree with your comments. I'd prefer we don't use this workflow, but
that's my way of viewing it, so community will have to decide.



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