(Update) Filechooser bug day/weekend/week/month idea
Hi All, Quick update on progress. Firstly thanks to those that have helped out with triaging bugs so far. Filechooser bugs are now down to 308 open bugs. A wiki page has been created with a bunch of tags that can be used to group open bugs into categories ready for a workathon. This page also contains a link to list all the bugs that are remaining to be triaged so that its easy if you want to help out. Even if its only one our two bugs that you help categories, it will be helpful. https://live.gnome.org/GtkFileChooser Currently there is 238 bug remaining to be grouped, I had hoped to have more done but my laptop died recently which has made it much harder to fit in the time to triage these bugs. Tim ___ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list
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For the record, I want to publically thank Timothy for the stellar work he has been doing in weeding the file chooser's bug list. Closing old bugs, filing patches, what more would one want? :) Thanks Federico, always good to get some positive feedback. For me a month-long fixing spree would work well, I think. Of course I'll gladly guide people through the code if needed. Excellent. By now the list I had in https://live.gnome.org/GtkFileChooser is highly obsolete. Feel free to replace it with your list of bugs. An alternative is to put little strings in the Status Whiteboard field of each bug (filechooser-easy, filechooser-crash, filechooser-retest, etc.) and put URLs for the corresponding bug queries in the wiki. Federico I really like this idea and think thats what I will do. I think I will first create a list of tags on the wiki page explaining what they mean then create the query links that way anyone can feel free the jump in and help out sorting the remaining bugs. I'm going to be pretty busy the next few days doing real world stuff so any help is apperciated. Tim ___ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list
Filechooser bug day/weekend/week/month idea wiki page
Hi all, I have updated the wiki page https://live.gnome.org/GtkFileChooser to contain a draft for the filechooser bug fix month. I have added some links for the current categories, and added the whiteboard tags to the bugs that I had already sorted in the LibreOffice documents. There is also a link to show all uncategorised bugs. For anyone that wishes to help feel free to create a new category if you thin its needed, but dont forget to add it to the unsorted bugs list query. Note: I haven't yet created the windows tags, but something like filechooser-windows-testing-needed, filechooser-windows-fix-needed, filechooser-windows-design-needed would probably be good if somebody wanted to do that for the current list. Similar tags could also be created for the Mac bugs. Note 2: I have left the old content on the wiki for now. Not sure if you wanted to keep any of it Federico? Tim ___ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list
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On 05/06/2013 00:26, Timothy Arceri wrote: Thanks John. I have attached a document with all the Windows bugs. Broken down into three categories. 1. Testing needed (old bugs that need to be confirmed still exist) 2. Bugs that someone can probably start work on right away. 3. Bugs needing some design work. Thanks Timothy, I'll take a look at some of them over the next few days (initially, just to see if I can reproduce them) and then we can take things from there. John ___ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list
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I probably can not be on location nor did I ever before look into gtkfilechooser - but there are definitly things I'd like to fix. Bernhard On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 11:58 AM, Matthias Clasen matthias.cla...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 6:02 PM, Timothy Arceri t_arc...@yahoo.com.au wrote: Anyway I'm keen to see what people think of my idea? Or if I'm just wasting my time. Far from it. I've been meaning to thank you for all the effort you've put into filechooser bug triage lately. I'm sure you're making a lot of people happy with this initiative. I'm one of then. ___ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list ___ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list
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On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 1:26 AM, Timothy Arceri t_arc...@yahoo.com.au wrote: Re: John I use GTK+ on Windows and I can confirm that GtkFileChooser has been one of the least reliable components :-( I'd be willing to provide some assistance but I'm still on Gtk+ version 2, as opposed to 3. John Thanks John. I have attached a document with all the Windows bugs. Broken down into three categories. 1. Testing needed (old bugs that need to be confirmed still exist) 2. Bugs that someone can probably start work on right away. 3. Bugs needing some design work. Thanks for doing this. I closed one bug and confirmed that two are still present with gtk 2.24. Your list made doing that easy. ___ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list
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On Mon, Jun 3, 2013 at 6:02 PM, Timothy Arceri t_arc...@yahoo.com.au wrote: Anyway I'm keen to see what people think of my idea? Or if I'm just wasting my time. Far from it. I've been meaning to thank you for all the effort you've put into filechooser bug triage lately. I'm sure you're making a lot of people happy with this initiative. I'm one of then. ___ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list
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Re: John I use GTK+ on Windows and I can confirm that GtkFileChooser has been one of the least reliable components :-( I'd be willing to provide some assistance but I'm still on Gtk+ version 2, as opposed to 3. John Thanks John. I have attached a document with all the Windows bugs. Broken down into three categories. 1. Testing needed (old bugs that need to be confirmed still exist) 2. Bugs that someone can probably start work on right away. 3. Bugs needing some design work. --- Re: Matthias Far from it. I've been meaning to thank you for all the effort you've put into filechooser bug triage lately. I'm sure you're making a lot of people happy with this initiative. I'm one of then. Good to know. Thanks. windows_bugs.odt Description: application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text ___ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list
Re: Filechooser bug day/weekend/week/month idea
On Mon, 2013-06-03 at 15:02 -0700, Timothy Arceri wrote: I have managed to help get the count down from 359 only a couple of weeks ago through a combination of patches, making duplicates and bumping old bugs and patches. I have even found a couple of unreported issue along the way. However I've come to the conclusion that if I want to make a serious dent to these bugs I need some help. So... For the record, I want to publically thank Timothy for the stellar work he has been doing in weeding the file chooser's bug list. Closing old bugs, filing patches, what more would one want? :) I have started working my way through all the outstanding bugs and categorising them into groups based on the next action that should (in my opinion, I'm open to corrections) be taken. This is the right way to go! Once a complete list of these issues has been created we could advertise a bug day/week/etc for these to be worked on retested etc. For me a month-long fixing spree would work well, I think. Of course I'll gladly guide people through the code if needed. I upload the Libre Office documents I've used to categories these bugs here: http://www.itsqueeze.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Filechooser-bugs.tar.gz but I would like to put all this on the Gnome wiki somewhere if that's possible?? This is really good! Thanks so much for compiling the list of categorized bugs! By now the list I had in https://live.gnome.org/GtkFileChooser is highly obsolete. Feel free to replace it with your list of bugs. An alternative is to put little strings in the Status Whiteboard field of each bug (filechooser-easy, filechooser-crash, filechooser-retest, etc.) and put URLs for the corresponding bug queries in the wiki. Federico ___ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list
Filechooser bug day/weekend/week/month idea
Hi All, I like to maximise the little time I have to contribute to Linux this is why I choose to contribute to GTK as I believe these contributions have the highest impact due to improvements reaching across multiple applications and desktops environments. Anyway lately I have been targeting the GTK filechooser in particular. This component alone currently has 320 bugs filed against it thats over 9% of the total GTK bugs. I have managed to help get the count down from 359 only a couple of weeks ago through a combination of patches, making duplicates and bumping old bugs and patches. I have even found a couple of unreported issue along the way. However I've come to the conclusion that if I want to make a serious dent to these bugs I need some help. So... I would like to propose we have a bug day/weekend/week/month dedicated to the file chooser. I have seen bug days proposed before without much enthusiasm but I've started on something I believe will help make this one more successful. I have started working my way through all the outstanding bugs and categorising them into groups based on the next action that should (in my opinion, I'm open to corrections) be taken. This should make it easy for potential contributors to find something they can help with and for the gtk maintainers to maximise the time they have to help out in working through the bugs. So far these are the categories I have: Bugs to maybe close - These are mostly old bugs. Some are crashes that were reported many years ago with very little or zero activity since. Some are reports that can no longer be reproduced, some are issue that are probably not as noticeable due to improvements in how the filechooseer works since the bug was first report. Anyway there are bugs that the GTK maintainers might want to look at and possibly close as I dont feel comfortable closing them myself. Design input needed - Again one for the GTK maintainers these bugs I consider need some guidance from the GTK team on whether or not its even a good idea to implement them before someone wastes time coding. Easier bug fixes - These are relatively easy bugs to work on that shouldn't be to hard to fix for a willing contributor. Generally most information thats needed is supplied in the bug report. Harder bug fixes - As it would suggest these are harder/more time consuming bugs a contributor could work on with most information available in the bug report for someone wishing to start working on it. Retest and likely fixed - These bugs need someone to retest and confirm if its still an issue or not. I'm guessing that most of these could be already fixed but its just a guess. Retest and find root cause - Bugs need to be retested and the root cause of the issue tracked down as the bug report lacks this information. Some of these could be quite difficult to track down. I intend to add at least two more one for all windows related issues and one for mac issues. Once a complete list of these issues has been created we could advertise a bug day/week/etc for these to be worked on retested etc. Of coarse no one is stopping anyone working on them while the list is still being completed. I upload the Libre Office documents I've used to categories these bugs here: http://www.itsqueeze.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Filechooser-bugs.tar.gz but I would like to put all this on the Gnome wiki somewhere if that's possible?? That way others could help me finish of the lists if they wanted too and its up there for all to see ready for the bug day. Anyway I'm keen to see what people think of my idea? Or if I'm just wasting my time. Thanks, Timothy Arceri ___ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list
