On the 0x24D day of Apache Harmony Geir Magnusson, Jr. wrote: > On Dec 27, 2006, at 4:14 PM, Zakharov, Vasily M wrote: > > > Hi, all, > > > > There're many issues in our JIRA that can be closed or integrated > > with no much effort. Issues with simple patches but with no > > "patch available" flag set, "Won't Fix" issues, non-bug differences > > are all good examples. > > > > And closing an issue (in a right way) is always good as it allows > > that issue to be forgotten and put off everybody's mind - one problem > > less to think of. > > > > But we have no effective instrument for a contributor to attract > > a committer's attention to a particular small issue. > > The dev list? Please? > > > > > For now the only way to do that is writing to the dev-list, > > which is not very effective - we already have traffic high enough. > > Moreover, that information is only relevant to committers, who are > > minority (though very important) in the list - all other contributors > > would read such a message for nothing, wasting their time. > > Not true! There are lots of benefits to this kind of thing, such as > raising more public awareness about the issue, let people with ideas > review and comment, etc > > > > > The other way used now to attract a committer's attention, is setting > > "Patch available" flag. But I can only set it on my own issues, > > and setting it is probably not appopriate for "Won't Fix" issues. > > > > Probably we could introduce some keyword, for example, FIX_AVAILABLE, > > that contributors could add to their comments to the respective JIRAs > > and committers could search for using conventional JIRA search? > > > > This way the committers' reaction to patches could be faster and > > choosing the right issue to put efforts to would be more well-founded > > and information-based for committers. > > > > What do you think? > > I'm going to be a stick in the mud here - the best way to get > people's attention should be dev list - maybe we adopt a new [tag] > for traffic?
Good idea. ([fix-available] or [fix]) and [wontfix] -- Egor Pasko
