[Opensim-dev] Triage Help

[Justin Clark-Casey]

Stefan Andersson wrote:
> We don't need percieved owners of code parts. Obviously, the mantis 
> bugs aren't solved because people are more interested in working with 
> features than fixing bugs. That's not going away because you assign 
> stuff. Rather, it means that those bugs are zombies - living dead issues.
I agree with you about the "don't want percieved owners" part.  
Unfortunately, though, if we only ever implement features instead of 
fixing bugs, we're not going to have a very useful project.
>
> Also, if anything, people should be assigned bugs in areas they don't 
> know anything about, so we start spreading the knowledge.
>
> If we could get a mantis statistic up front on the wiki page, that 
> might be a motivator, though. Ie, reported/closed and closed by developer.
I quite like this idea, though perhaps just a reported/opened/closed 
summary and not a developer breakdown.

-- justincc
>
> /Stefan
>
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> > Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 09:14:08 -0400
> > From: sean at dague.net
> > To: opensim-dev at lists.berlios.de
> > Subject: [Opensim-dev] Triage Help
> >
> > Right now there are 350 open & unassigned issues in Mantis, which would
> > be nice to reduce.
> >
> > Part of the issue with reducing that number is being able to do
> > assignments to people. We've got a lot of people willing to triage, but
> > without assignment guidelines, that's going to be hard to make a dent.
> >
> > I'd like to suggest we each declare some areas where bugs can be default
> > assigned to us. Some early suggestions.
> >
> > sdague - sqlite
> > Teravus - ODE
> > Tedd - script engine
> > Adam - terrain
> >
> > other volunteers? I'd like to make a triage guidelines page on the wiki
> > to help the folks that are helping us triage.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > -Sean
> >
> > --
> > __________________________________________________________________
> >
> > Sean Dague Mid-Hudson Valley
> > sean at dague dot net Linux Users Group
> > http://dague.net http://mhvlug.org
> >
> > There is no silver bullet. Plus, werewolves make better neighbors
> > than zombies, and they tend to keep the vampire population down.
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