On Sep 19, 2009, at 6:27 PM, Vincent Massol wrote: > > On Sep 19, 2009, at 6:22 PM, Roman Friesen wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I have just created the jira task "XWIKI-4375": >> http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XWIKI-4375 >> >> <description> >> As you probably know the Ubuntu team has starter the project "One >> Hundred Paper Cuts": https://launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts >> >> They define a paper cut as (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PaperCut): >> * a bug, or an unintended problem occurring within an existing >> piece >> of software, >> * the presence of which makes a computer more difficult or less >> pleasant to use, >> * that is easy to fix, >> * that the average user would encounter during his/her first day of >> using >> >> XWiki is a great software but it contains also a lot of "paper cuts". >> Such little but annoying bugs or usability issues would be a great >> entry >> point for new xwiki developers, because they are easy to fix. But >> also >> experienced xwiki commiters could relax fixing this paper cuts after >> their hard work ;) >> >> The proposal would be to start a similar task/project for identifying >> paper cuts in xwiki. Related jira issues could be just linked to this >> jira task." >> </description> >> >> I have already linked one paper cut to this jira task - XWIKI-3335. >> Any feedback would be very appreciated. > > Hi Roman, > > (some comment I put on the jira issue but are better posted here) > Great idea. We had started something similar but now you've given it > a name: a Paper Cut. What we've done so far was to identify easy to > fix bug and mark them as easy in jira. > For example here's the current list of issues marked as trivial in > XWiki core (we need to extend this notion to all jira projects right > now I think it's only in core): > > • Trivial: > http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?mode=hide&requestId=10534
We could decide that the trivial category we have corresponds to paper cuts. Feel free to start a PaperCut page on dev.xwiki.org Thanks -Vincent > • Easy: > http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?mode=hide&requestId=10535 > Here's some work to be done IMO: > > • Review existing issues and verify the difficulty is correctly set > • Add these custom fields to all projects in jira > • Prepare a page on dev.xwiki.org to explain this Paper Cut thing > • Promote it on the xwiki mailing lists, twitter, etc > Thanks > > -Vincent > > PS: I'm not sure XWIKI-3335 is that trivial... :) _______________________________________________ users mailing list users@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users
