Re: Issue Management in Apache Projects

2021-09-29 Thread Jarek Potiuk
llow up on this thread with a > success story! > > Erik > > On 2021/07/09 12:01:06, Paul Angus wrote: > Hi Erik, > > My 2c - you (the project) may have to 'take a view' on some of the > issues if they date back to older versions. > > In my experience fixing bugs o

Re: Issue Management in Apache Projects

2021-09-02 Thread Juan Pan
g, and _then_ start fixing it... Volunteers are unlikely to want to take on all that effort, so it does mean an ever increasing number of old bugs (as Jarek says, only stakeholders tend to allocate resources to that kind of thing). So I would start by seeing if you have a lot of really old bug r

Re: Issue Management in Apache Projects

2021-09-01 Thread Jarek Potiuk
filed. >> >> Thanks again for all the great advice, and I'm glad to know it's not only >> us having these issues. We've got some plans in the works to improve this >> state, and hopefully in a few months I can follow up on this thread with a >> success story! >> &

Re: Issue Management in Apache Projects

2021-09-01 Thread Jarek Potiuk
if they date back to older versions. > > In my experience fixing bugs obviously requires replicating the > problem, fixing it and confirming that its fixed, but if the issue was > reported against an old version, then someone needs to replicate it in the > old version (to be sure its not PICNIC

Re: Issue Management in Apache Projects

2021-09-01 Thread Juan Pan
r closing them as a matter of course. Huge bug lists also tend to put people of as they don't know where to start and don't feel that they can even make a dent in the pile. Kind Regards Paul Angus -Original Message- From: Jarek Potiuk Sent: Friday, July 9, 2021 12:51 PM To: dev Subjec

Re: RE: Issue Management in Apache Projects

2021-08-28 Thread Sheng Wu
> >> issues if they date back to older versions. > >> > > >> > In my experience fixing bugs obviously requires replicating the > >> problem, fixing it and confirming that its fixed, but if the issue was > >> reported against an old version, then someone ne

Re: RE: Issue Management in Apache Projects

2021-08-28 Thread Jarek Potiuk
ion to check that its still a bug, >> and _then_ start fixing it... >> > >> > Volunteers are unlikely to want to take on all that effort, so it does >> mean an ever increasing number of old bugs (as Jarek says, only >> stakeholders tend to allocate resource

Re: RE: Issue Management in Apache Projects

2021-07-15 Thread Jarek Potiuk
f as they don't know where to start and don't feel that they > can even make a dent in the pile. > > > > Kind Regards > > > > > > Paul Angus > > > > -Original Message- > > From: Jarek Potiuk > > Sent: Friday, July 9, 2021 12:51 PM > &

Re: RE: Issue Management in Apache Projects

2021-07-15 Thread Erik Ritter
lists also tend to put > people of as they don't know where to start and don't feel that they can even > make a dent in the pile. > > Kind Regards > > > Paul Angus > > -Original Message- > From: Jarek Potiuk > Sent: Friday, July 9, 2021 12:51

RE: Issue Management in Apache Projects

2021-07-09 Thread Paul Angus
know where to start and don't feel that they can even make a dent in the pile. Kind Regards Paul Angus -Original Message- From: Jarek Potiuk Sent: Friday, July 9, 2021 12:51 PM To: dev Subject: Re: Issue Management in Apache Projects We are struggling with it as well in Apache

Re: Issue Management in Apache Projects

2021-07-09 Thread Jarek Potiuk
We are struggling with it as well in Apache Airflow. I can write about some of the things we actively do to try to bring it down (and we can see how it will work after some time). We have not succeeded yet (we also have ~800 issues opened) but we for example have ~130 opened PR and we used to

Re: Issue Management in Apache Projects

2021-07-08 Thread Christopher
Hi Erik, Do you have a good understanding of *why* there are more issues being opened than being closed? If so, that might hint at some possible solutions. For example, if you just don't have enough people to write code, then the PMC could focus on inviting new committers to try to grow the

Re: Issue Management in Apache Projects

2021-07-08 Thread Julian Hyde
I find that assigning work is better done outside of Apache. As a committer triaging bugs, the committers to whom you might assign those bugs don’t work for you. (Of course, you and they might work for the same company. But when you are both wearing your Apache hat, no one works for anyone