[Sugar-devel] Notes on triage meeting

[Simon Schampijer]

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

[1] http://sugarlabs.org/go/BugSquad/TriageGuide#Severity_of_the_bug