[haiku] Re: Trac Ticket cleanup
- From: scott mc <scottmc2@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 16:37:17 -0700
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 4:17 PM, <collinsautomotive@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> I will be starting that process sometime early next week, most likely
> monday afternoon. I
> have bumped a few questionable tickets with added comments.
>
> I will take a honest bet that something like 50% of the current tickets
> maybe invalid. Its
> going to require a lot of testing. I was going to go component by compontnet
> and test for
> behavoirs by groups.
>
It's probably closer to 10-20%.
> I might suggest a lock down on commits and do a bug search for maybe the
> next 5-7 days.
That's probably not going to happen. Perhaps in the week prior to
Alpha3, but that date hasn't been set yet.
> Have each developer test/check current tickets and see how many are valid
> still.
>
> if theres only 6700 and if every body takes 100 tickets that only 70 people
> to test out 5
> tickets a day. Could be done in a week. That will clean up Trac a good bit
> and give the
> developers a much more solid idea of where the OS is currently. I was going
> to start on
> working on a few patchs but I don't even know where to start.
There's about 1800 open trac tickets, not 6700.
One of the first ones I suggest
> is fixing the BOM for ISO images. It constantly has issues with PE and vision
> failing on install.
>
> That would fix IIRC around 5-10 tickets for various CD ISO issues.
Which ticket numbers?
>
> At this point in the process with people discussing r1a3 or even beta's. A
> ticket purge really
> needs to be done. My suggestion is create a fork in the trac system, test
> tickets and restart
> the trac system. Leave the old tickets in archive and find out whats really
> broken. But to
> thuroughly test anything requires large sample groups. So a user drive
> campagin should be
> initiated as well to increase samples size.
>
> I can't do much coding but I am fiarly good at human interaction and
> organization and
> problem diagnostics. I do it all day.
>
> If there is something I can help with let me know.
>
> Sean
>
Most of the devs know what they are working on and which currently
open trac tickets are higher priority. Maybe focus on rechecking
tickets that are older than 1 year and still have no owner.
-scottmc
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