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Re: "Won't Fix" candidates

 

I can remove the inactive bug squad team members if no one objects.
Please let me know if you are willing to help maintain the bug tracker
and would like me to add you to the bug squad team.  I appreciate all
the help I can get.

Cheers,

Wayne

On 12/28/2017 06:29 PM, Nick Østergaard wrote:
> As far as I know users not admin for the kicad project or not part of
> the kicad bug squad team or kicad-product-committers
> <https://launchpad.net/~kicad-product-committers> can not change
> priority or assignee, and possibly a sligtly limited set of statuses.
> 
> In the bug squad team there are three people I do not recognize. Maybe
> it is time to remove them, if they are not active anymore, and add other
> people who cares about the bug tracker.
> 
> The inactive ones being:
> V Bruce Hunt (no kicad bug activity at all)
> Greg Hicks (no kicad bug activity at all)
> Stephen Eaton (latest bug comment around late 2010)
> 
> 
> 
> 2017-12-28 20:51 GMT+01:00 Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>>:
> 
>     I share your concerns about the bug tracker but I do not believe there
>     is any way to delete bug reports.  I have admin privileges to the entire
>     kicad launchpad website I don't see any option to remove bugs.  I wish I
>     did have more fine grain control to prevent users from changing bug
>     status, importance, etc. at will.  These are just a few of the short
>     comings of launchpad.
> 
>     Cheers,
> 
>     Wayne
> 
>     On 12/28/2017 02:41 PM, Jeff Young wrote:
>     > The bug database is a bit on the unwieldy side.  I think we should
>     clean
>     > out those bugs that we aren’t ever going to fix.  Candidates would
>     > certainly include legacy canvas low-priority stuff, but there’s all
>     > kinds of other things in there that I can’t see ever being fixed
>     either.
>     >
>     > With that in mind, I’m submitting a list of clean-up candidates.
>     >  Perhaps others can also suggest some?
>     >
>     > Then if someone objects to a particular candidate we can pull it
>     off the
>     > list, but otherwise it would get flagged “Won’t Fix”.  (BTW, why is it
>     > that “Won’t Fix” is a higher-privilege setting?)
>     >
>     > Anyway, my list of nominees:
>     >
>     > pcbnew Bug: Hitting b while in pcb, flash's error message too fast
>     to see
>     > https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1518442
>     <https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1518442>
>     > (Legacy-canvas issue that doesn’t effect eeschma.)
>     >
>     > The actions of FIlling and Un-Filling Zones are not undoable.
>     > https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1471768
>     <https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1471768>
>     > (This was just a legacy too-slow-to-update-in-realtime-issue.  Editing
>     > the zone boundary is the thing that requires undo, and it has it.)
>     >
>     > Legacy canvas: zone corner movement tricky when corner not on grid
>     point
>     > https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1736839
>     <https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1736839>
>     > (We’ve lived with it this long, and the chances of it getting
>     fixed seem
>     > remote.)
>     >
>     > [Legacy canvas] pcbnew: show center-point, start/end-points of arcs +
>     > nodes of lines
>     > https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1197410
>     <https://bugs.launchpad.net/kicad/+bug/1197410>
>     > (Legacy-canvas issue that doesn’t effect eeschema.)
>     >
>     >
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