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[Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxxx>]

On 2015-09-29 07:20, Alexandra Settle wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I’ve been noticing in the last few months (and I’m sure it’s been a
> problem before) that we have contributors submitting bug reports, and
> then immediately fixing before triage,  or there are patches without
> bugs (or blueprints) and it’s becoming quite confusing.
>
> I am finding that this is a problem because some of these bugs are
> personal issues they’re finding with their individual builds, or on
> occasion it is a bug that needs to be fixed and individuals are offering
> the wrong solutions and immediately trying to patch it up in the
> documentation.
>
> Personally, I’m unsure how to solve this issue, and wondering if we can
> get a think tank going on how to solve this.
>
> So far all I’ve been able to do is to remind contributors to wait for a
> second individual to triage, or the patch is eventually abandoned due to
> several negative reviews (which, ultimately encourages said contributor
> not to come back because we look like a very negative community).
>
> We can do more “bug triaging days”, but not everyone is to give the time
> to this exercise.
>
> Thoughts? Suggestions? Comments? Questions?

This is not a simple topic, thanks for raising it!

Some OpenStack projects encourage this behaviour - if you send a patch 
without a bug, they often ask for a bug that you create and assign 
directly to you...

Also, we have Documentation like
 http://docs.openstack.org/infra/manual/developers.html#working-on-bugs
 https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/BugTriage

Neither asks for an independent review.

I acknowledge the problems we have and I think this might be a broader 
topic to discuss - not on this limited list but perhaps together with 
developers on openstack-dev? Or in some cross-project meeting?

Andreas
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