Re: 'love' product in bugzilla

[Malcolm Tredinnick <malcolm commsecure com au>]

On Mon, 2003-11-24 at 20:50, Vincent Untz wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> I was talking on IRC and had an idea that seems good to me: why not
> create a 'love' product in bugzilla?
> 
> This product would contain bugs that newcomers to GNOME could try to
> fix, projects like the gnome-screensaver that we want to launch, etc.
> 
> It'd be an easy way to maintain a list of tasks for the gnome-love
> project.
> 
> What do you think?

I am against it.

The bugs are already classified according to their product and
component. Whether or not they are easy to fix or appropriate for people
to work on who don't have a lot of experience is an orthogonal issue to
what product the bug is against. Moving bugs out of their original
product and into your proposed component would mean we lose track of
which product they are related to.

We should be using "easy-fix" where appropriate and you could add "love"
to the whiteboard status field on bugs that are not necessarily easy to
fix but which require relatively little experience to get involved with.

Cheers,
Malcolm