Hi there folks, Bugzilla is getting out of hand. It's rapidly approaching the 1,000 bug mark (965+) currently. This represents a varitable mountain of bugs, RFEs, and tracker issues. My best guesstimation is that it would take over a "Martin" man-year to resolve the large majority of these bugs.
What I'd like to do is to have people start focussing more on bugzilla. This doesn't mean that I want everyone to work on bugs and only bugs from now until eternity. But perhaps if we all paid bugzilla a little more attention, the mountain would begin to erode a bit. How can one help? 1) Triage bugs. Matthew Craig, MG, Hakon, and others have done a great job with this, and would probably love another few sets of hands helping out there. Make sure that all bugs have an owner, a milestone, priority, etc... Close as invalid/wontfix those bugs which you believe are invalid or that should not be fixed. 2) QA Confirm/deny bugs. Move them to CLOSED or REOPENED status. 3) File new bugs and RFEs. 4) Fix bugs or parts of bugs as you can. I'm especially hoping for lots of developers to help tackle this one. You want to work on a new feature? Fine. Enter the feature into bugzilla so that it can be noted and triaged. Or better yet, look at one of the hundreds of RFEs already in bugzilla and tackle a few of them. You want to get involved in AbiWord development? Go pick a bug or RFE out that interests you, brew up a patch. bugzilla.abisource.com has lots of wonderful ideas for you. irc://irc.gnome.org#abiword has lots of smart and helpful folks willing to help you out. CVS HEAD shows *tons* of potential. But that and $.50 will get us a $.50 cup of coffee. What Abi needs is a lot of polish and attention to detail before we can dub this thing "2.0". I don't expect all or even a majority of these bugs to be closed before the 2.0 release. But I'd like a lot of them to be addressed to some large degree. Not all bugs are created equal. Let's kick the real nasties in the backside. Cheers, Dom __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your site http://webhosting.yahoo.com
