Hi Alex

Fully agree: I think we should change our GH templates here and at least
give “free” fields to the users.

I would be more than happy to propose a PR to update the templates and
“relax” the fields for the user.

Regards
JB

Le ven. 17 janv. 2025 à 12:34, Alex Dutra <alex.du...@dremio.com.invalid> a
écrit :

> Hi,
>
> If there are issues incorrectly labeled as bugs, that's maybe also because
> we don't give many choices to users; when opening an issue, our templates
> are very opinionated and only offer 3 options: "Bug report", "Feature
> request", and "Report a security vulnerability" (with too many fields to
> fill in imho – but that's a different topic). There is no clear way to log
> things like: tasks, chores, performance issues, proposals for configuration
> changes, questions, doubts, documentation changes, suggestions for
> refactorings, additions or modifications in CI tests, etc. So I guess that
> most users just go for "Bug Report".
>
> Alex
>
> On Fri, Jan 17, 2025 at 8:34 AM Michael Collado <collado.m...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I agree that tackling real issues in a timely manner is super important.
> > That’s why I think it’s important to be judicious in labeling issues as
> > “bugs”. When the queue becomes too noisy, people learn to ignore it and
> > important things get missed. When given the choice between too much noise
> > and too little signal, I tend to err on the side of eliminating the noise
> > so that at least we develop the habit of looking at whatever does come
> > through.
> >
> > I’m glad to see all the issues being filed and all the accompanying
> > activity. I just think we should be clear on how we label things so
> > everyone knows how to prioritize.
> >
> > Mike
> >
> > On Thu, Jan 16, 2025 at 11:26 PM Eric Maynard <eric.w.mayn...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > No, actually I don't think we need to argue much. We should try to
> label
> > > things correctly and the difference between what is a bug and what is
> > not a
> > > bug is typically evident.
> > >
> > > This is a bug, <https://github.com/apache/polaris/issues/813> and this
> > is
> > > not <https://github.com/apache/polaris/issues/773>. Both of these are
> > > legitimate issues, but how they are labelled is important.
> > >
> > > On Thu, Jan 16, 2025 at 11:20 PM Robert Stupp <sn...@snazy.de> wrote:
> > >
> > > > We can argue a long time about labels and their usage and about the
> > > > formal definition of those.
> > > >
> > > > What I think really matters is that the issues, especially real bugs,
> > > > with security issues being the absolute #1 priority, are tackled in a
> > > > timely manner.
> > > >
> > > > On 17.01.25 06:00, Jean-Baptiste Onofré wrote:
> > > > > Hi Mike
> > > > >
> > > > > I agree, the bug label should mean: this is something breaking
> > > > > *compared* to a previous commit (as we don't have release yet :)).
> > The
> > > > > GH Issues considering a "bug" not related to a previous commit is
> an
> > > > > "improvement" to me: it's not a bug introduced on top of a previous
> > > > > commit but more an "general concern/bug" we have in mind, so an
> > > > > improvement on the existing.
> > > > >
> > > > > To sum-up:
> > > > > - we should use "bug" for issue introduced by a commit after
> another
> > > > > commit (history)
> > > > > - we should use "improvement" for issue/improvement we want to
> > > > > implement (it could be considered as a bug from a personal
> standpoint
> > > > > but not related to project history)
> > > > > - we should use "new feature" for new functionality we want to
> > > > > implement in the project
> > > > > - we should use "proposal" for design/MVP
> > > > >
> > > > > Regards
> > > > > JB
> > > > >
> > > > > On Thu, Jan 16, 2025 at 10:56 PM Michael Collado <
> > > collado.m...@gmail.com>
> > > > wrote:
> > > > >> Hey folks
> > > > >>
> > > > >> There are over 40 issues with the "bug" label in github right now,
> > > many
> > > > of
> > > > >> which are not actually bugs, but seem to me like personal
> > preferences
> > > or
> > > > >> possible improvements. A lot of these issues seem like reasonable
> or
> > > > good
> > > > >> changes to me, but I think we should reserve the "bug" label for
> > > things
> > > > >> that are actual bugs. Can we remove the bug label from issues that
> > > > aren't
> > > > >> actually broken?
> > > > >>
> > > > >> Mike
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Robert Stupp
> > > > @snazy
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
>

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