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[Bill Deegan]

Triage for SCons was often
a) what bugs will we try to get into the next release
b) status of such
c) what gets punted to next
d) new bugs.. investigating if they're real, then prioritizing.

I'm handling some of d.
All of a and b.



On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 10:42 AM, William Blevins <wblevins001 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I guess I'm more concerned with how developers are expected to interact
> with the issue lists. When I look at the issues. I'm not sure what issues
> are considered priority. The issues have different severity levels, but as
> far as usefulness, I can never really be sure how many users an issue
> affects, etc.
>
> On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 5:24 PM, Bill Deegan <bill at baddogconsulting.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Tigris bug tracker is still in active usage.
>> Bugs are getting filed and cleared.
>> We are holding some of the bugs which would have been filed (which were
>> invalid and/or duplicate) by asking people to go to the users mailing list
>> first.
>>
>> If I could I'd require users need a token to enter a new bug.. Enforce
>> bringing the issue to users mailing list first..
>> I'm not sure how that would play out though..
>>
>> -Bill
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 9:19 AM, William Blevins <wblevins001 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 5:18 PM, William Blevins <wblevins001 at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 3:58 PM, Russel Winder <russel at winder.org.uk>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Mon, 2016-01-11 at 14:42 -0800, Bill Deegan wrote:
>>>>> > William,
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Yes bug triages stopped a while back.
>>>>> > I think about the time Greg Noel disappeared, and Steven Knight took
>>>>> > some
>>>>> > big steps back from the project.
>>>>> >
>>>>> > Ideally we'd see the ability for commits to get amended to bugs they
>>>>> > are
>>>>> > related to and vice/versa.
>>>>>
>>>>> Asynchronous triage and pull request review is much more likely to work
>>>>> in a scattered system. I for one always failed to turn up to triage
>>>>> meetings as they tended to be held at 03:30+00:00.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> You are probably right about asynchronous triage; that wasn't my
>>>> sticking point. I think the tigris tracker is mostly only used for
>>>> historical reference now. It doesn't really provide any sense of priority
>>>> which is fairly essential for any product growth.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Perhaps something like a Kanban style issue listing would go a long way?
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> The Go team recognize this hence their use of Rietveld and then Gerrit
>>>>> to handle pull requests. I am not so sure we need that level of
>>>>> bureaucracy but…
>>>>>
>>>>> I am very much in favour of a BitBucket/Git/JIRA or GitHub/Git/Issues
>>>>> setup to get the integration of pull requests, issues, and repository.
>>>>> For me the current status with Tigris is unviable. I think I have even
>>>>> lost my Tigris login credentials. To be frank, I don't actually care
>>>>> that I have!
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Russel.
>>>>>
>>>>> =============================================================================
>>>>> Dr Russel Winder      t: +44 20 7585 2200   voip:
>>>>> sip:russel.winder at ekiga.net
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>>>>> London SW11 1EN, UK   w: www.russel.org.uk  skype: russel_winder
>>>>>
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