On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 13:58, Juergen Harms <[email protected]> wrote:
> Picking up from where Mageia forked off, many things activities look like > continuity from Mandriva Linux. But forking is also a challenge to find not > too hard to implement improvements - such as "bugzilla monitoring". > > I think I am not the only one who frequently felt frustrated submitting yet > another bug, knowing that it had more 50% of chance to disappear the > "oubliettes". I think there is an objective question: if bugs are not > followed up, that should not just happen by accident - there should be an > explicit and justified decision. There is also a subjective question: a user > who went through the pains to write a good bug report should get a feedback > with a followup, even if there are no "comments" in the bugzilla data base. > > Some ideas: have a "lost bug advocate"? create a team - just like the > "triage team" that feels responsible for bugs not to disappear? (different > from the, but talking to, maybe overlapping the triage team, leaning on the > "dev" - in Mageia it will be a volonteer, even more important - to whom a > bug is assigned) - proposing and justifying which bugs - for the time being > - will have no follow up), creating some commented statistics on the fate of > bugs - good for QA, but also for PR about Mageia? trigger an alarm if too > many bugs remain un-resolved? - always assuming that enough active > contribution can be recruited from the temp. wiki list. I also believe that, > for Mageia, the situation is different. In Mandriva, I guess that some > (many?) of these acitivities were done by staff of the QA group - in Mageia > an alternative is needed. > > Maybe Mandriva had something like this - if yes, it was too well hidden. > _______________________________________________ > Mageia-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss > +1 -- Frederic
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