There're dozens of trivial issues with patches, in Swing, for example. And if committers read harmony-commits list, they already know about all of them and there's no any reason reminding them, everything's fine.
Vasily -----Original Message----- From: Geir Magnusson Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2006 8:13 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: How to mark ready-to-integrate JIRAs? On Dec 28, 2006, at 12:05 AM, Egor Pasko wrote: > On the 0x24D day of Apache Harmony Vasily M. Zakharov wrote: >>> maybe we adopt a new [tag] for traffic? >> >> It seems to me, everybody would soon skip it without looking. > > You can skip, comitters do not skip, you are happy. Unbelievable? Now now :) How about this - why not try it? Vasily, do you have an issue you want to call attention to? geir > >> And those few who wouldn't, read harmony-commits list anyway and >> see any >> changes occuring. >> >> It's better not to write a mail at all, than write it marking >> "this is >> non-important message, >> don't read it" - the result is the same, but the traffic is higher >> and >> more time is spent. >> And we already have a list for such "non-important" messages, >> harmony-commits. >> >> Vasily >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Geir Magnusson Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2006 1:00 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: How to mark ready-to-integrate JIRAs? >> >> >> 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? >> >> geir >> >>> >>> Vasily Zakharov >>> Intel Enterprise Solutions Software Division >> > > -- > Egor Pasko >
