[Scons-dev] SCons developer DVCS survey

[Bill Deegan]

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On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 3:46 PM, Bill Deegan <bill at baddogconsulting.com>
wrote:

> 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.
>>>>>>
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>>>>>>
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