[Deskbar] Fwd: Bugzilla flooding

[Raphaël Slinckx <raphael slinckx net>]

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> From: Raphaël Slinckx <raphael slinckx net>
> Date: Thu 5 Oct 2006 13:53:44 GMT+02:00
> To: Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen <mikkel kamstrup gmail com>
> Subject: Re: [Deskbar] Bugzilla flooding
>
> Hi !
>
> On 05 Oct 2006, at 11:04, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen wrote:
>
> > Those of you subscribed to Bugzilla might have noticed that we  
> > received
> > over 200 bug reports yesterday. Bug reports are good, don't get me
> > wrong, but I guess that 95% of those reports where either dupes or  
> > just
> > useless.
>
> Unfortunately yes.
>
> > Fortunately we have people work hard to triage bugs and I honestly  
> > don't
> > know what we should have done without them.
>
> I want to thanks them also for the wonderful job they do !
>
> > However, I also think that 200/bugs/day is just a too much. We  
> > have to
> > do something about it... But what? Code better? Remove bugbuddy
> > integation? Leave deskbar and work on bugzilla?? Anything!?
>
> I think the answer to this one is quite obvious. Fix the bugs :)
>
> As far as I can tell most of the bugs are related to the global  
> keyboard shortcut.
> 1) The entry is confusing (people expect to type the '<Shitft>bla'  
> stuff, and not hit the correct keypress.
> 2) The old shortcut isn't released, so if you get hit by 1, then  
> you cannot use your keyboard anymore
>
> I suggest to revert to old behavior of typing the whole sequence  
> manually until we figure out 2. And apply the setting only when  
> closing the pref dialog. Before the next 2.16 release.
>
> For the other bugs i haven't looked yet, but the most common should  
> be fixed. I don't think we have unfixable bugs really.
>
> By the way, we missed the 2.16.1 Released which sucks.  
> Unfortunately I got absorbed by my university duties and wasn't  
> able to do anything on deskbar.
>
> I'l probably have time for it during the summit and I suggest we  
> all take some time and fix most of the bugs before next week. That  
> would be really excellent !
>
> Thanks !
> Raf