[Sugar-devel] Github issue tracking

[Daniel Narvaez]

Ah! Thanks for posting this, I knew Joel had something like this but I
couldn't find it anymore.

On Tuesday, 14 May 2013, Gonzalo Odiard wrote:

> I agree with the need of cleanup the bug database. I have proposed that
> several times,
> and closed many bugs. One of the best arguments I read about this topic,
> is the "bug bankrupcy" description:
>
> "*The bug database* is obviously a great thing to have. Bug reports
> should be complete, accurate, and actionable. But I have noticed that in
> many real-world companies, the desire never to miss any bug report leads to
> bug bankrupcy, where you wake up one day and discover that there are 3000
> open bugs in the database, some of which are so old they may not apply any
> more, some of which can never be reproduced, and most of which are not even
> worth fixing because they’re so tiny. When you look closely you realize
> that months or years of work has gone into preparing those bug reports, and
> you ask yourself, how could we have 3000 bugs in the database while our
> product is delightful and customers love it and use it every day?" [1]
>
> I have prepared two reports to try to understand better our actual
> situation:
>
> Bugs by components [2]
> This report show activities are usually in a good shape (that was not
> always true)
> Of course, sugar* + journal are much more complex.
> If we do some triage, should be good concentrate on these components
>
> Bugs by sugar version [3]
> Nobody is working in fix bugs of sugar older than 0.98.
> We should check if the older bugs are still present or close them.
>
> Gonzalo
>
>
> [1] http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2012/07/09.html
> [2] http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/report/14
> [3] http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/report/13
>
>
>
>
> On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 11:21 AM, Walter Bender <walter.bender at gmail.com<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'walter.bender at gmail.com');>
> > wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 9:23 AM, Daniel Narvaez <dwnarvaez at gmail.com<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 'dwnarvaez at gmail.com');>
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> On Tuesday, 14 May 2013, Walter Bender wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I think what would really help, independent of where/how we host
>>>> things, is to instituteA more regular (and inclusive) triage meetings. I
>>>> cannot think of the last time we had one that was announced on sugar-devel
>>>>
>>>
>>> How did they go when they was organised? I think they would very helpful
>>> if the community participates. If its just the same people which writes
>>> code, then I think their time is better spent fixing bugs, reviewing and
>>> writing automated tests.
>>>
>>
>> We would have them in association with the release process. As I recall,
>> we held them after feature freeze and again closer to the release date. It
>> was in large part the coders, but not exclusively, and it gave others a
>> chance to chime in regarding priorities. We'd generally meet for about 3
>> hours on a weekend.
>>
>> -walter
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Daniel Narvaez
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Walter Bender
>> Sugar Labs
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Daniel Narvaez
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