On 01/10, Kevin A. McGrail wrote:
> >How do we avoid duplicating effort (two people reviewing one
> >bug)?
> No easy way except that I would divide up the blocks. I have a
> spreadsheet I started to keep track of things.
Surely there is some feature request that could be submitted to bugzilla to
improve this workflow.
Is the "priority" field being used at all, really? Would it make sense to
use it to keep track of which bugs have been reviewed?
> >Any particular criteria for deciding what to consider a blocker?
> These are hard questions. I typically know'em when I see'em. ;-)
> If you see something you think should be moved, you could just mark
> a spreadsheet for me to do a second pass.
I am concerned about this not actually reducing your workload :)
("Okay, I read this one. Now I think you should read it, like you were
going to whether I did or not.")
What if you do a quick pass, and anything that takes you more than
an arbitrarily small amount of time, you add it to a "maybe" list,
for other people to work on? That way we have a PMC member making
most of the decisions of what doesn't need to be considered a blocker?
Might even be useful if most of the work being done by non-PMC people is
just going through your "maybe" list, reading the full bug history,
and providing a summary comment at the end (with an opinion on whether
it should be a 3.4.0 blocker). I feel like that's a lot of the work
involved, and probably ends up getting duplicated a lot due to people
figuring out what the current situation is, and *not* posting a summary
comment. Maybe start the comment with "SUMMARY: YYYY-MM-DD".
> Typically before every release, someone on the PMC has run through
> all the bugs and moved targets and making sure we are ready to
> release, yes. This is the first time I've attempted to do it but I
> think I'm being too thorough. It's been very good at getting bugs
> closed but no so good on moving us towards a release.
I'm torn, but I think getting bugs closed is better than sticking to any
arbitrary timeline.
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