From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NmENa-00024D-Js for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 01 Mar 2010 22:46:23 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 675C0E0C17; Mon, 1 Mar 2010 22:46:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-fx0-f222.google.com (mail-fx0-f222.google.com [209.85.220.222]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07E1AE0C02 for ; Mon, 1 Mar 2010 22:46:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm22 with SMTP id 22so3081194fxm.26 for ; Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:46:16 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=5X1SzDT5fo5p+erywuAvjyj83uWn26fY7qFFbztg+fM=; b=l5Umu37FjsLal+QuCBaxDUgMV2GAd6jLfAoCQeD+QNKtkpXXW+xhBuQ0rAFFsJGpSh QMfE9Ize6tMD7rb1JA03ndG0ls/zi4Gpn1Fm7WvIwzIA70I8C78ETRrEPJJJ62sLCUJI I9HO8n3ow9dqhyp1Wblcnxk1moYKi2zJQK85M= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=slUhlSKlH1oO9/H1X6wBE70cnN5cJL+z11AHybDLDB6jwLb7iUmUWygY0hK+/AoRB9 EEsntYz20R3il0FvPc2YBcz+Zt/oS4TGVAOiX5zK3yc/BWBjOs+ufpGBTor1JIU042bC G3Kb7vqjuTg69FYhy1ETNWkE8mO87zBdBP9CE= Received: by 10.223.5.156 with SMTP id 28mr5752480fav.74.1267483575899; Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:46:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.1.18? ([95.147.55.110]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 14sm2522737fxm.5.2010.03.01.14.46.14 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:46:15 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4B8C43B7.8060400@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2010 22:46:15 +0000 From: George Prowse User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.1.8) Gecko/20100216 Thunderbird/3.0.2 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Marking bugs for bugday? References: <4B889D1F.3040304@gentoo.org> <201002282154.35130.hwoarang@gentoo.org> <4B8ACC34.7000600@gentoo.org> <20100228173504.78eea0b1@angelstorm> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: c7830de0-5ed3-4cce-8956-822175885dc2 X-Archives-Hash: 2db5be870bda7ec68a2541277d9e880f On 01/03/2010 22:19, Ben de Groot wrote: > On 1 March 2010 22:17, Ioannis Aslanidis wrote: >> [...] > > Great ideas! > >> The teams should send the list of >> bugs, with each bug filling a skeleton similar to the following: >> >> * Ticket number. >> * Title. >> * Clear, easy to understand, short description of what we want to >> delegate to our users. >> * Topic of the task (as in networking, C/C++, python, ebuild, etc.). >> * Difficulty of the task. >> * Detailed step-by-step description of the task. > > This will not work. You need to keep things really simple for our devs. > I don't see anybody but the most dedicated ones, who also happen > to have a lot of time on their hands, fill out such a detailed form. > > I'd say let devs just nominate bugs, either by adding BugDay to > the keywords field or something similar, or by passing the bugday > team a list of bug numbers. Then the bugday team can sort these > and see if any instructions are needed. They could always ask the > involved devs/teams for more info when necessary. > > Cheers, You don't need to make it compulsory to fill out those fields and if just 1 out of every 10 or 20 bugs gets that filled then it is still a big leap forward. Or... Ask for a dev whose whole job is to fill out those forms. I'm sure there are plenty of non-coders out there who would be willing to do it, even a team!