[opensuse-gnome] Unassigned bugreports
Hello! I sent this email previously but made a mistake and it ended up in -announce... :-/ I just did a quick bugzilla query of all unassigned GNOME bug reports and found 270 of them. Some of these reports are very old, and some are new, but instinct tells me that unless someone keeps going through these reports over and over, they might fall between the chairs. I'd like to suggest that we all have a look at http://tinyurl.com/2c8ksy and assign bugs as appropriate. By having all bugs assigned, at least we have someone in charge. To find out who could be assigned to certain bugs, have a look at http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/Directory. I would hope that if someone gets a bug assigned to them and it's not their cup of tea, they might be able to figure out who the proper person would be, or simply assign it back to bnc-team-gnome@novell.com If someone objects to this, please let me know. Meanwhile (ie, while people object) I'd appreciate if you could all start working on this :-) Thanks, Magnus -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help@opensuse.org
Le samedi 01 mars 2008 à 16:31 +1100, Magnus Boman a écrit :
To find out who could be assigned to certain bugs, have a look at http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/Directory. I would hope that if someone gets a bug assigned to them and it's not their cup of tea, they might be able to figure out who the proper person would be, or simply assign it back to bnc-team-gnome@novell.com
Oh, it reminds me of the first thing I thought when looking at the list of bugs: there's currently no way to quickly search for bugs of an upstream module since everything is filed in GNOME (or GNOME Platform/Admin -- why do we have those two components, btw?). I was considering (ab)using the whiteboard field to add some keywords for this, like "gnome-upstream-gnome-panel", or just "upstream-gnome-panel". It's a bit long, but I guess it's better to keep some namespace here. What do you think? Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help@opensuse.org
Vincent, On Sat, 2008-03-01 at 10:09 +0100, Vincent Untz wrote:
Le samedi 01 mars 2008 à 16:31 +1100, Magnus Boman a écrit :
To find out who could be assigned to certain bugs, have a look at http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/Directory. I would hope that if someone gets a bug assigned to them and it's not their cup of tea, they might be able to figure out who the proper person would be, or simply assign it back to bnc-team-gnome@novell.com
Oh, it reminds me of the first thing I thought when looking at the list of bugs: there's currently no way to quickly search for bugs of an upstream module since everything is filed in GNOME (or GNOME Platform/Admin -- why do we have those two components, btw?). I was considering (ab)using the whiteboard field to add some keywords for this, like "gnome-upstream-gnome-panel", or just "upstream-gnome-panel". It's a bit long, but I guess it's better to keep some namespace here.
What do you think?
We do have "should_go_upstream" and a few other keywords that we use. It's not module specific though. What we started to do was to use tracker bugs for different components but far from all (only components that receive the biggest number of bug reports). See http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/Bugs for more information. Cheers, Magnus -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help@opensuse.org
Hi, Le samedi 01 mars 2008 à 20:26 +1100, Magnus Boman a écrit :
We do have "should_go_upstream" and a few other keywords that we use. It's not module specific though. What we started to do was to use tracker bugs for different components but far from all (only components that receive the biggest number of bug reports).
Yes, I saw that. Keywords like "should_go_upstream" are really useful, but don't cover the problem. And opening tracker bugs for each upstream modules sounds, hrm, sub-optimal :-) There are at least two immediate problems I'm concerned with: + it's not upstream-friendly. As upstream, I sometimes go to the fedora bugzilla, to the debian bts or in launchpad, to look at what's happening there. + if I want to focus some openSUSE bug-fixing on one package, like gnome-desktop, it makes it really difficult to do it since I have no way of knowing which bugs I should look at. Another really concrete example, based on your original request: I'm happy to be assigned all the bugs for the modules I maintain upstream. Except that there's no way to quickly find those bugs. It's not something essential, but something that would be nice. It adds some overhead when triaging new bugs, though... Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help@opensuse.org
Hi, Le samedi 01 mars 2008 à 10:09 +0100, Vincent Untz a écrit :
Oh, it reminds me of the first thing I thought when looking at the list of bugs: there's currently no way to quickly search for bugs of an upstream module since everything is filed in GNOME (or GNOME Platform/Admin -- why do we have those two components, btw?). I was considering (ab)using the whiteboard field to add some keywords for this, like "gnome-upstream-gnome-panel", or just "upstream-gnome-panel". It's a bit long, but I guess it's better to keep some namespace here.
I've started doing this with gnomeup-$module categories in the whiteboard. See http://en.opensuse.org/GNOME/Bugs#Categories_which_you_can_cut.26paste_into_... for some documentation about this. Now, I'm (painfully) going through all bugs to set this. It should help assign unassigned bugs once it's done: just look for bugs with gnomeup-gnome-panel to search for gnome-panel bugs and see if they should be assigned to me, eg. Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help@opensuse.org
On Sat, 2008-03-01 at 10:09 +0100, Vincent Untz wrote:
upstream module since everything is filed in GNOME (or GNOME Platform/Admin -- why do we have those two components, btw?). I was
Mostly historical reasons, I guess. We used to have three sub-teams: people who work on the platform, people who work on desktop apps, and people who work on the administrative apps. Federico -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-gnome+help@opensuse.org
On Wed, 2008-03-05 at 09:45 -0600, Federico Mena Quintero wrote:
On Sat, 2008-03-01 at 10:09 +0100, Vincent Untz wrote:
upstream module since everything is filed in GNOME (or GNOME Platform/Admin -- why do we have those two components, btw?). I was
Mostly historical reasons, I guess. We used to have three sub-teams: people who work on the platform, people who work on desktop apps, and people who work on the administrative apps.
Gary is actually working on collapsing this back into one component.
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