Quoting Ross Gardler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Dave Brondsema wrote: > > Quoting David Crossley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > >>Done. That clarifies the Roadmap. > >> > >>Do any people out in the Forrest dev community > >>know other things that we can do to improve our use > >>of Jira? Or point to projects that use it well. > >> > > > > > > Many projects periodically do a "bug day" where everyone spends time > > investigating, updating and resolving issues. This could be useful for us > > > because it seems that a lot of our issues are very old and/or incomplete. > > > There are also minor issues that very few people care about (maybe nobody > > anymore) which are not worth spending time on. > > > > The problem, of course, would be to coordinate such a day, especially given > > > our geographical spread. It doesn't have to be simultaneous work, though. > We > > could even do a week of bug-squashing. > > > > I would (time allowing - that's a coordination issue) participate in any > such activity. I'd like to propose something slightly different though. > My motivation for the slight variation is that we are, as you say, a > small number of developers with a wide distribution across the time > zones. Lets use the distribution to our advantage and try and use this > time to bring in some more developers. > > There are a number of folk who have recently started to explore the > inner workings of Forrest. I doubt that they have much inclination for > fixing outstanding bugs - where's the fun in working out how something > works to fix a bug that isn't affecting them. I am sure they are more > interested in doing cool new things. > > If we can find a way to coordinate things so that there will be at least > one core developer available via some kind of chat mechanism (instant > message or even voice, via Skype) then that developer would be available > to to guide people in fixing bugs and would be able immediately commit > the patches. > > We might therefore be able to attract some other developers. > > I'm up for whatever we decide is best. >
Most groups use an irc channel for communication. For us, we could use irc.freenode.net#forrest Yes, we should involve end-users by asking them to help with their particular bugs of interest. Some more info about bug days: http://www.mozillazine.org/articles/article2151.html http://www.python.org/moin/PythonBugDay http://developer.gnome.org/projects/bugsquad/triage/ -- Dave Brondsema : [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.brondsema.net : personal http://www.splike.com : programming http://csx.calvin.edu : student org
