Server Team 20100120 meeting minutes

[Thierry Carrez]

Dustin Kirkland wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 5:27 AM, Thierry Carrez
> <thierry.carrez at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>> List at [4] still needs to be cleaned up to be more useful.
>>
>> [4]
>> http://qa.ubuntu.com/reports/team-assigned/canonical-server-assigned-bug-tasks.html
>>
>> Action: zul, kirkland to unassign themselves from "maybe working on one
>> day" bugs
> 
> Two comments here ...
> 
> First to the usefulness of that list...  I don't like it at all that
> this list is cached data.  It's always out of date.  I've closed
> several of these bugs today, and they're still on this list.  For this
> list to be useful, it needs to be more up-to-date.

I agree. Usually I check up stale entries just before the meeting, but
cleaning them up won't help since the report is pregenerated. I think
the reason is that it magically expands to bugs owned by the list + the
individual members of the list.

> Second, I actually would like to track my "maybe working on one day"
> bugs.  Perhaps I'll work on them in my own time, or as a community
> member, or as a MOTU.  For this reason, it makes sense to use the
> owner field in Launchpad.  Can we, perhaps, tag them somehow, and
> filter on that to generate this report?  Adding a "spare-time" tag, or
> something like that?

I also agree that using the assignee field that way prevents us from
getting a nice list of "maybe working on one day" bugs. This is a
two-edged sword though. Putting your name there usually discourages
anyone else to fix it or propose a patch for it, and that's definitely
not a desirable side-effect.

I tried to use the "subscribed to" list to get such a list myself, with
varying degrees of success. Maybe tagging those bugs
("maybe-one-day-kirkland", or something more obscure), without assigning
them to you, would allow to easily get a list of them without the
unwelcome side-effect of preventing contributions.

-- 
Thierry Carrez
Ubuntu Server team