On 06.03.2013 08:57, Greg Stein wrote: > Hey all, > > I've noticed, for a while, that bloodhound-dev is filled with more > ticket activity than commit activity. This doesn't seem right. > > Using tickets to plan changes is more of a Review-Than-Commit > approach, and is definitely slower for development. This project was > set up as Commit-Then-Review, but I think it has fallen into a "let's > use our BH install and file tickets for everything" mode. As a result, > development appears to be *much* slower than it should otherwise be. > > When filing a ticket, I would encourage everybody to stop and > reconsider. If you can perform a commit, then do that instead. Others > can review the commit, rather than the ticket. > > If you are working on some code, and are skipping some work, then just > drop in a comment about the future-needed work. In the Subversion > project, we've found that marking these comments with ### makes them > easy to spot/find (no code/prose looks like that, so they stand out). > By placing these "to-do" markers into the code while you're working > there, and committing, it means you don't have to change contexts to > go and file a future work ticket. > > If you want to discuss something, then consider just placing it onto > the dev@ list. Most people want to interact on the *list* ... not > through comments on tickets. By filing a ticket, for something > intended for discussion, then you're actually working against > yourself. The broadest (and easiest) discussion forum is here on dev@. > > I would recommend filing tickets *only* for bugs. > > Please... let's get back to Commit-Then-Review. More commits. Less tickets.
We've had this discussion before, and for a short time the situation was better. ... but apparently not for long. I absolutely agree with Greg. There's something wrong with the fact that there are several hundred tickets open, many of them seem to be "implementation instructions" for designs in the wiki -- which clearly should've resulted in code, not more tickets. :) -- Brane -- Branko Čibej Director of Subversion | WANdisco | www.wandisco.com
