Re: Work on bugzilla?

[Stephane Delcroix <stephane delcroix org>]

Hi,

some random thoughts about bugzilla:

the bug list for f-spot looks like a mess, indeed, and maybe is a bit
messy.

that being said, there's not a lot of bugs you'll be able to fix right
now as obsolete. some of them refers to (very) old versions but may
still mean something. it's _not_ a bad smell for a project to have a
huge list of bugs reported, it only means users are doing their Q.A.
work ;)

f-spot does not have a big enough team to use the UNCONFIRMED or NEW
status, to assign people to bugs, or to give a high priority to the
'priority' or 'severity' fields...

but don't mis-read this... cleaning the bug list is _not_ a waste of
time, and I'd like to have a f-spot BugDay anytime soon on IRC,
dedicated to review (and fix if possible) old bugs.

regards

s
 

On Tue, 2007-09-18 at 22:34 +0200, Giacomo Rizzo wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I know I am not an f-spot developer, I know I've been reading this list
> for really a short time, so if someone wants to answer to my mail
> "shut-up", that'll be right :)
> 
> In last days, I worked on a few bugzilla bugs, starting (thanks to
> Stephane suggestion) by gnome-love, and continuing with other bugs.
> 
> Actually I was watching f-spot bugs statistics, and I think that's quite
> a mess.
> 
> There are nearly 500 bugs, over 200 of those are not enhancements.
> Most of those bugs refer to old versions of f-spot, which bugs are
> probably out of date, no more present, or it would be time to fix them
> (:P)
> 
> The Priority field seems to be set randomly: there even is a bug marked
> with Priority "Immediate" and Severity "Trivial" :/
> 
> The Status field is quite too often set to "UNCONFIRMED" even when bugs
> are confirmed. There are over 60 unreviews patches.
> 
> I'd like to help and not only fixing the bugs that my knowledge of C#
> consent me.
> I propose to make a little "task force" that open one by one all bugs,
> starting from the older, check if they are still present, and fix the
> fields (and even the bug, if possible :P).
> 
> What about? Do you think is a waste of time?
> 
> Giacomo
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