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[Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>]

Well, the most basic is to just read some bug reports once in a while. Ask
questions for clarification, and maybe help more proactively to get them in
a state where one can pick it up and fix it or reject it. Anyone can of
course help with this without being in the bug squad.

2017-12-29 15:44 GMT+01:00 Greg Smith <ecomputerd@xxxxxxxxx>:

> What is involved in helping with bug tracker? I may be able to help. If
> you lean "include even if not definitely active" then you're welcome to
> include me. If you lean "only include if definitely committed and active",
> then please tell me more about the task.
>
> Thank you, and great work on KiCad everyone!
>
> Greg S.
>
> > On Dec 29, 2017, at 8:09 AM, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >
> > 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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