Re: [Ayatana] Papercuts in Maverick

[Sense Hofstede <qense@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 24 May 2010 15:50, Vishnoo <drkvi-a@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-05-24 at 14:36 +0200, Sense Hofstede wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> The UDS hangover should be completely gone now and we all probably
>> can't wait to start working (even harder)!
>> I've got a couple of thing with regard the papercuts project I would
>> like to ask.
>>
>> Vish has already done some serious triaging for the papercuts project
>> and I've done a few as well, but there are still 50 new bugs -- the
>> number was reasonably constant the last few weeks -- and there are 282
>> open bugs.
>>
>> Some of the new bugs are quit old already; the oldest we have is bug
>> <https://launchpad.net/bugs/25977>, which was originally reported in
>> November 2005. This bug report is a request to add a shortcut to the
>> trash bin to the Places menu you can find in the top left corner of
>> the screen. This is something that needs to be looked into by the
>> design team as there are different opinions regarding the use of the
>> proposed change.
>> Sometimes there are more papercuts that could benefit from feedback
>> from the design, desktop or dx teams. Would it be worth the trouble to
>> come up with some kind of structure to make it easier to request
>> feedback? Or are there enough design people looking at Ayatana bugs?
>> A solution could be to subscribe the Ayatana Discussion group to those
>> bugs so the mailing list would get a mail and the people on the
>> mailing list could join the discussion.
>
> This would generate parallel discussion via bug comment mails and
> mailing list comments and would eventually be confusing.
> Ayatana mailing list already generates nearly ~30 mails a day , and this
> is way too much considering the quality of the actual discussion! ;)
>
> What we have done in the past is , bring attention to certain bugs by
> forwarding to the ayatana list. [like how you have mentioned the above
> bug report]. For such questionable bugs  , we can just mention the bug
> here and discuss away.
>

Sounds sensible, agreed.

>> When will the first round of Maverick papercuts be started? If we'd
>> follow the same schedule we have for Lucid I think we should start in
>> the begin of June. However, we do have a bit less time now apparently
>> we are going for a release at 10-10-10.
>>
>> During the UDS session we briefly discussed whether we should or
>> shouldn't raise the number of papercuts to handle per release. We
>> didn't come to a final decision, so here I ask again: do we want to
>> stick with 100, do we want to try to get 150, or will we go for 7 or 5
>> per week?
>>
> We decided on 100.
> Anything higher will depend on Jorge Castro and getting the bug jams
> involved.
> Not sure when the next bug jam would be though.
>

OK. We could take another look at this after a Global Jam. Who will
make noise about paper cuts when a Global Jam is coming close?

> For the jams, the target would be the milestoned bugs and the other
> "triaged" papercut bugs.
>
>> I'm afraid 5 a week would be a bit too much, but we should raise the
>> goal. We can achieve 150 if we want, we just need to make sure the
>> papercuts project gets the right PR and people know where to find the
>> milestones. Also, forwarding upstream helps a lot.
>
> Yes , we need PR and once we setup the milestones, we should see more of
> that , and this round we want to encourage the folks who fixed the bugs
> to blog about it too.
>>
>> In the session the positive effects of endorsement by the design team
>> were also mentioned. Would it be good to mention it in an upstream
>> report if the bug report has been selected as one of the 'official'
>> 100/150 papercuts?
>>
> Yes , we have been doing this in the past as well,there have been
> several bugs which were stuck for years but fixed once upstream has seen
> a bug accepted as a papercut and decision made as to how the fix should
> be.
>
>
> --
> Cheers,
> Vish
>
>

Regards,
-- 
Sense Hofstede
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