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 1PznKt-0002Gc-Rg for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 09:48:12 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F28441C089; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 09:48:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0995F1C002 for ; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 09:47:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.3] (ip-94-112-147-25.net.upcbroadband.cz [94.112.147.25]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: scarabeus) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 168221B4348 for ; Wed, 16 Mar 2011 09:47:35 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4D808707.8080104@gentoo.org> Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 10:46:47 +0100 From: =?windows-1252?Q?Tom=E1=9A_Chv=E1tal?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110307 Lightning/1.0b3pre Thunderbird/3.1.9 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] Quantity of open bugs References: <20110307130425.3C1ED1C042@pigeon.gentoo.org> <20110310202510.45627780@athlong2.kevquinn.com> In-Reply-To: <20110310202510.45627780@athlong2.kevquinn.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.1.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: c578544a02b452eb5b151ecc8d297547 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello Kevin, open bugs alone are never the issue. We can have millions of them open and still being able to manage things in sanely manner. So if the issue is not open bugs as whole, what it can be? Open bugs for specified area. Imagine you work on KDE, you fire up your bugzilla and start watching whats going on. Currently we have around 200 open bugs, which is manageable. But at one point we got nearly to 500 where we really lost any track of what the heck is happening. The goal should be that projects itself should focus and try to lower their bug count or introduce simple queries for their members to have reduced number of the bugs in their list. Open bugs are good, they are reminder that we should look to issues, even if it just means testing and stating that the things were fixed in meantime. Closing them would not solve anything. Only problematic parts of the bugzilla are unmaintained areas (herds) of the tree where the bugs have tendency to grow. The fix itself is not to close those bugs, but motivate some guys to work on that area and became developers so that bug number effectively became manageable. Cheers - -------- Tom=E1=9A Chv=E1tal Gentoo Linux Developer [Clustering/Council/KDE/QA/Sci/X11] E-Mail : scarabeus@gentoo.org GnuPG FP : 94A4 5CCD 85D3 DE24 FE99 F924 1C1E 9CDE 0341 4587 GnuPG ID : 03414587 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk2AhwcACgkQHB6c3gNBRYerUQCeIGkQg3hbEwdUCBMNqb6gTPlq Xo0AmgPF7zUHAkC0Lv8TdHTOU39mONAw =3DQSOi -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----