Hi Andrea 2014-12-27 20:08 GMT+01:00 Andrea Faulds <a...@ajf.me>: > As Rowan says, this would be a problem. Rather than just closing all bugs > that are of a certain age, we should just go through all the open bugs one by > one. 4000 open bugs is a lot, sure, but with a few people working at it I > think we could get through that quite quickly. :)
I for one are against just closing old bugs without at least a review too. If we can have 5-10 developers (from any part of the community with a @php.net account) to look over a few bugs a day, then we can quickly bring that number down. We also have a fair bit of bugs assigned to people that I'm sure are not actively being worked on (notably Pierre, nothing personal here), but I doubt that Pierre have the time to work on the 120 bugs assigned to him at the moment, maybe some pieces, bits and bytes are laying around, I'm sure that also is a small factor for others, be that new contributors or veterans that will think that the bug is being worked on but really it isn't. Personally I have tried in December to lower my number and I'm down to below 10, whether that is simply unassigning myself, revewing the report or fixing it. Another thing with assignment of bugs is, some people are assigned by others because it is their area of expertise, take Dmitry for example he is one of the few guys that knows the Engine better than my own backpocket and often bugs are assigned to him for review but some ends up in the vast ocean of open bugs and are forgotten, again nothing personal and I have not been any better myself (I just closed an almost 4 year old bug assigned to me with a working patch). We could maybe have some advocates that could moderate bug reports and hand out some @php.net forwarder candy to such that wants to help the community but may not be able to write patches or fix them directly. -- regards, Kalle Sommer Nielsen ka...@php.net -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
