On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 6:36 PM, Russell Keith-Magee < russ...@keith-magee.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 2:05 AM, Julien Phalip <jpha...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I was wondering if others would find it useful to introduce a new > > field in Trac to characterise the nature of a ticket, allowing to > > choose from at least: "bug report", "feature request", or > > "optimisation". I think this would help bring the right focus during > > alpha and beta stages, and also help people looking for tickets when, > > for example, they're in the mood for fixing bugs. I believe the > > Keywords field has been used in an ad hoc way for this before, but it > > feels that something more structured would be more helpful. > > Back in the dim, dark past, we actually *did* have a 'feature' flag. > The problem we had was data integrity. Experience showed that > reporters were very bad at differentiating between a "bug" and > a"feature". The most common mode of failure was people reporting > "Django, can't do X -- this is a bug", and then trying to convince > them that lack of features isn't a bug. So, we removed the feature > flag. Oh, the good old days :-) > > However, I agree that this is worth revisiting. Our community is now > larger, we have more people to help with the Trac gardening, and there > are less "obvious features" that are missing that could be > misconstrued as a bug. Most importantly, since our process hinges on a > "feature freeze", it is silly that we can't easily differentiate bugs > from features in our issue tracker. There's another todo pending in > Trac regarding the introduction of a 'needs feedback' state; we should > probably roll the reintroduction of a feature flag into this. > > Russ %-) > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django developers" group. > To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en. > > I don't think there's much work that needs to be done, it'd take about 20 seconds to do from the web interface if we decide its a good idea. Alex -- "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." -- Evelyn Beatrice Hall (summarizing Voltaire) "The people's good is the highest law." -- Cicero -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django developers" group. To post to this group, send email to django-developers@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-developers?hl=en.
