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[Jeff Young <jeff@xxxxxxxxx>]

I’m also happy to join the bug squad.

Cheers,
Jeff.


> On 29 Dec 2017, at 15:03, Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Any help verifying the bug (set status as triaged or confirmed) and/or
> getting all of the necessary information to reproduce a segfault bug
> such as sample files, accurate list of steps to reproduce, or a stack
> trace is really helpful and can be time consuming.  Getting all of this
> information up front can take a large burden off of a developers time.
> If you are willing to accept some of this responsibility, I would be
> more than happy to add you to the bug squad.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Wayne
> 
> On 12/29/2017 09:58 AM, Nick Østergaard wrote:
>> 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
>> <mailto: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
>>    <mailto: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
>>    <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>
>>>> <mailto: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>
>>>>     <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>
>>>>     <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>
>>>>     <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>
>>>>     <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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