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Hello Kevin, |
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open bugs alone are never the issue. |
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We can have millions of them open and still being able to manage things |
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in sanely manner. |
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So if the issue is not open bugs as whole, what it can be? |
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Open bugs for specified area. Imagine you work on KDE, you fire up your |
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bugzilla and start watching whats going on. Currently we have around 200 |
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open bugs, which is manageable. But at one point we got nearly to 500 |
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where we really lost any track of what the heck is happening. |
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The goal should be that projects itself should focus and try to lower |
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their bug count or introduce simple queries for their members to have |
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reduced number of the bugs in their list. |
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Open bugs are good, they are reminder that we should look to issues, |
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even if it just means testing and stating that the things were fixed in |
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meantime. Closing them would not solve anything. |
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Only problematic parts of the bugzilla are unmaintained areas (herds) of |
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the tree where the bugs have tendency to grow. The fix itself is not to |
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close those bugs, but motivate some guys to work on that area and became |
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developers so that bug number effectively became manageable. |
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Cheers |
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- -------- |
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Tomáš Chvátal |
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Gentoo Linux Developer [Clustering/Council/KDE/QA/Sci/X11] |
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E-Mail : scarabeus@g.o |
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