Hi devs, We changed our bug tracking tool. One of the goals is to have more people doing bug triage, confirming bug reports, providing examples, screenshots and so on. We need more [power] users involved and more developers on the “bug triage” team.
Let’s take advantage of all these discussions around the tool and the changes introduced, to focus on what is really important: to have more people involved in QGIS testing to provide more stable releases. To tool is not the goal. We need to clean up our bug/feature request queue. We already had good proposals here on the list, regarding cleaning old issues and pointing to new policies regarding issue lifetime. We just need more action! Proposal My proposal is to publish a post on our blog calling for a huge QGIS Bug Squash party, for two days, making all users aware of this new tool and calling them for this activity. We can ask them (for example) to selected 5 issues they can improve, by providing more feedback (confirming a bug report in current 3.x version, for example) or by subscribing a feature request they found important. To provide live support for all users involved in the party, I would like to create a Doodle to make sure we have at least one developer available on IRC/Gitter (for the all 48 hours) where people can discuss what to do with ticket X. Each developer would subscribe a 4 hour period (that’s the usual watchkeeping period for sailors). I also would like to propose to the PSC/this developer list that current committers can have the “triage” role on qgis/QGIS - upon request - to have more people doing bug triage. Régis and Saber already mentioned this limitation regarding issue management and both are well known contributors (and Saber can follow 3D tickets ;-)) For those seeking to join the “bug triage” team, they just need to have a PR committed (and they will be rewarded). QGIS Bug Squash party goal If we need to define a goal, it would be: cleanup 2/3 of the queue (and keep the queue below 1000 issues). Comments Please provide comments about this proposal. For the exact dates for the party, I suggest 14 and 15 (next week) to have a regular working day (for those able to work on QGIS on their daily jobs) and Saturday, for the ones only working on their spare time. Regards, J. Gustavo -- Jorge Gustavo Rocha Departamento de Informática Universidade do Minho 4710-057 Braga Tel: +351 253604480 Fax: +351 253604471 Móvel: +351 910333888 skype: nabocudnosor _______________________________________________ QGIS-Developer mailing list QGIS-Developer@lists.osgeo.org List info: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer Unsubscribe: https://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer