[QGIS-Developer] QGIS Bug Squash party

[Jorge Gustavo Rocha]

Hi Paolo,

Thanks for the feedback. You are right. The time is short, for sure. I
was trying to do it before our next release on June, 21th.

What do you think? Should we do it before the 3.8 release? Maybe on
June, 18-19? Or should we postpone it to prepare it more carefully and
get more visibility?

Regards,

Jorge

Às 10:44 de 08/06/19, Paolo Cavallini escreveu:
> 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
>>
> 

J. Gustavo
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Jorge Gustavo Rocha
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