Re: TODO stuff

[Elijah P Newren <newren math utah edu>]

On Tue, 2004-08-17 at 23:36 +0100, Andrew Sobala wrote:
> So, I've been bullied^H^H^H^H^H asked to reply to the TODO list posted

you've been "bu asked"?  What's that?  ;-)

> to gnome-bugsquad while I was away. Unfortunately since I had mail
> disabled, I can't reply to the thread. The mail I'm replying to is here:
> 
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-bugsquad/2004-August/msg00000.html
> 
> I'm also Cc-ing the brand spanking new bugzilla-devel-list, which is
> where a lot of this should be discussed ;) [ Subliminal message:
> subscribe if you're interested in this sort of thing. Don't if you're
> not. ]

Sounds good, I'm only replying to that list 

> * Having a TODO webpage
> 
> Yup, sounds reasonable, the alternative to this is to log things in
> bugzilla. I like bugzilla because it's easy to add and remove things
> from it, in contrast to a webpage. We already have some of this sort of
> thing in bug form against the bugzilla product.

Yeah, I started typing (er, cutting and pasting mostly) the TODO webpage
and realized that it should be done that way.  The first thing on that
TODO list is to remove bugzilla.gnome.org items from the list and put
them in bugzilla.

However, unless we add another product to bugzilla for general bugsquad
tasks such as the triage guide (which may be a good idea), we'd still
need the TODO list.

> As a side note, if someone wants to go through all the issues Elijah,
> Olav and possibly others raised and put them in bugs, that would be imho
> worthwhile.

It's on the TODO list, but only for items relating to bugzilla.gnome.org
(which, yes, was the majority), and not the rest.  :-)

> * Maintainer documentation
> 
> The "old way" of doing -maint aliases (halloween) is totally dead. If
> anyone tries to use maint-aliases.txt, it won't work. We need to update
> that part of the webpage.

Heh, I updated that page just a few days ago for other stuff, but I
wasn't aware that halloween was totally dead yet (I thought it was just
dying).  I did mention that it would be removed at least.

> Common question is "How do I add versions" (etc) (answer: email
> bugmaster).

Or less polite, "click on the first link under the maintainer section on
bugzilla.gnome.org and start reading".  :-)

> Oh, that leads onto a new TODO: integrate adding bugzilla
> versions with install-module.pl on master.gnome.org .....

That'd be cool.

> * Conditional milestone
> 
> Nod, there is an "isgnome" field in the DB exactly for this sort of
> thing.

Note that I have this is working now.  I took care of it last weekend
since no one voiced an objection.  (and yes, it was made relatively easy
with the "isgnome" field)


Elijah