Hi,
As Gabi has pointed-out today, we have a growing list of bugs reported
for Yast, assigned to the default assignee: yast-maintainers. Some of
the bugs cannot be fixed easily now as we do not have a single person
who would take care about "that particular module", "usability" or "design".
For me, this is a perfect way for fixing bugs in an agile way:
- Project manager decides what needs to be fixed and when
- We will find out who can fix or which expertise we need
- And we'll either assign these bugs to respective people in time or try
to find help outside
But we need to find a way how not to get lost in bugs assigned to
yast-maintainers. And there are several possibilities:
1. NEW bug needs to be checked and either reassigned or at least marked
as reviewed/confirmed
2. CONFIRMED bug should have a [yast2-*] in Summary, so we know it has
been reviewed already / or we could add new keyword e.g. "reviewed". The
current "Yast Maintainer" must make sure that summary describes the
issue well
3. IN_PROGRESS should have a real assignee, this would need cooperation
with PjM/PM, so they set real priority
4. We will definitely not be able to fix all bugs, so there needs to be
a way to drop as CANTFIX/WONTFIX according to given criteria
5. Features should be closed as FEATURE and the reported advised to use
FATE.
6. Yast maintainer should take care only about bugs that haven't been
reviewed, for that a simple search should be possible (e.g.: doesn't
contain `reviewed` flag)
Please review, and/or come with better ideas. I know this is yet another
rule-set, maybe you'll have a better idea.
Bye
Lukas
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Lukas Ocilka, Systems Management (Yast) Team Leader
Cloud & Systems Management Department, SUSE Linux
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