[QGIS-Developer] QGIS Bug Squash party

[Paolo Cavallini]

Olá Jorge,
I fully agree with your proposal. Limited attempts in the past have
given good results. I think more time should be allowed to let people
organize.
Cheers.

On 07/06/19 17:03, Jorge Gustavo Rocha wrote:
> Hi devs,
> 
> We changed our bug tracking tool. One of the goals is to have more
> people doing bug triage, confirming bug reports, providing examples,
> screenshots and so on. We need more [power] users involved and more
> developers on the “bug triage” team.
> 
> Let’s take advantage of all these discussions around the tool and the
> changes introduced, to focus on what is really important: to have more
> people involved in QGIS testing to provide more stable releases. To tool
> is not the goal.
> 
> We need to clean up our bug/feature request queue. We already had good
> proposals here on the list, regarding cleaning old issues and pointing
> to new policies regarding issue lifetime. We just need more action!
> 
> Proposal
> 
> My proposal is to publish a post on our blog calling for a huge QGIS Bug
> Squash party, for two days, making all users aware of this new tool and
> calling them for this activity. We can ask them (for example) to
> selected 5 issues they can improve, by providing more feedback
> (confirming a bug report in current 3.x version, for example) or by
> subscribing a feature request they found important.
> 
> To provide live support for all users involved in the party, I would
> like to create a Doodle to make sure we have at least one developer
> available on IRC/Gitter (for the all 48 hours) where people can discuss
> what to do with ticket X. Each developer would subscribe a 4 hour period
> (that’s the usual watchkeeping period for sailors).
> 
> I also would like to propose to the PSC/this developer list that current
> committers can have the “triage” role on qgis/QGIS - upon request - to
> have more people doing bug triage. Régis and Saber already mentioned
> this limitation regarding issue management and both are well known
> contributors (and Saber can follow 3D tickets ;-)) For those seeking to
> join the “bug triage” team, they just need to have a PR committed (and
> they will be rewarded).
> 
> QGIS Bug Squash party goal
> 
> If we need to define a goal, it would be: cleanup 2/3 of the queue (and
> keep the queue below 1000 issues).
> 
> Comments
> 
> Please provide comments about this proposal. For the exact dates for the
> party, I suggest 14 and 15 (next week) to have a regular working day
> (for those able to work on QGIS on their daily jobs) and Saturday, for
> the ones only working on their spare time.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> J. Gustavo
> 

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