Hi,

Having so many outdated tickets makes planning really difficult - you are right 
this is a management issue - and we have to manage our releases.
We need to tell OCF and others when we have which releases and which features 
and tickets are in it.

What exactly is your proposal to do now?
Please summarize a proposal that goes beyond ignoring the old tickets - or is 
exactly this your proposal - do nothing?

thanks
  Christian



On 25 Mar 2017, at 20:37, Gregg Reynolds <dev at mobileink.com<mailto:dev at 
mobileink.com>> wrote:



On Mar 25, 2017 2:04 AM, "Christian Gran" <gran at 
lynxtechnology.com<mailto:gran at lynxtechnology.com>> wrote:
Hi,

we are talking here about two different things - that somehow got mixed up:

1) get a clean state:
Looking at Jira today twe have more than 100 tickets that have not been looked 
at for more then 6 month.

why is that a problem?  why 6 months?  why not 3, or 9, or 132?  and how do you 
know they have not been "looked at"?  what does "clean state" mean?


We need to do something about this.

why?

My proposal to the group was - that everyone has a look at these tickets and 
updates the ones that are important.

to whom, when?

The ones no one is interested in should be handled as well - in my opinion 
closed - as no miracle happens here.

i see your point; my objection is to "closed".  just because nobody has yet 
taken an interest in ticket x does not mean nobody ever will. new people come 
on board, marking sth as "closed" will effectively make it invisible.  case in 
pointe: eliminating comments that mix c and c++ comment syntax. completely 
trivial, nobody cares, mostly, and i have not had time to make a patch in the 
past 6 months.  that does not mean it will never happen.  don't you dare mark 
it as closed!

i guess i do not understand what is driving this.  i do not think a jira with 
lots of unaddressed tix is "dirty", so i do not see how "cleaning" it solves a 
real problem.  to be blunt this strikes me as pure bureaucracy, sth only a 
project manager could love: reducing the number of open tix looks better to 
management.  but there is no mgmt here.  if you want to encourage people to 
resolve open tix i'm all for it, but you cannot force volunteers to do stuff 
that does not interest them.

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