Bug triaging

[John A Meinel]

Wouter van Heyst wrote:
> I've merged and closed a couple of bugs yesterday, and John is clearing
> more this day (at quite a pace I might add). Most of the bugs in the
> tracker are in an 'untriaged' state. How much of regularly going through
> the bugs and accepting/assigning and otherwise changing their status
> would be useful? 
> 
> In other words, I'd like to help out but don't want to step on peoples
> toes.
> 
> Wouter van Heyst
> 
> 

Most of my work was just closing old bugs that have been fixed for a
long time.
I know Martin uses the bugtracker as a brain dump. So that he can come
back later and make sure he didn't forget about anything.

In which case, I think having someone go through bugs periodically, and
make sure that there is at least a test case written, or that fixed bugs
are marked as such, would be quite useful. (Hence why I was trying to do
that today :)

I honestly don't have any idea about "assigning" bugs to people.

My personal feeling is that if a bug can be verified by at least one
other person, it is much more useful. And even further if a test can be
written to expose the bug, it gives developers a test case they can
grab, apply to their tree, and work until it passes.

I don't think you would be stepping on any toes to just manage the bug
list. You could even restrict yourself to bugs that haven't been touched
in a certain amount of time.

John
=:->


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