xor skrev: > On Saturday 30 May 2009 16:37:15 Ian Clarke wrote: >> I like this idea. I think it is clear that there is a lot of cruft in >> Mantis, open bugs that are no-longer relevant etc. Cleaning house >> would be useful. >> >> Ian. > > I am strongly against getting rid of the bugtracker contents if that is what > you guys mean. > > If we were supposed to rate our development process in terms of "best > practices", deleting the bugtracker content would probably be the WORST > practice which anyone can think of, besides deleting all documentation. > > I think we should do the following: > 1. (FIRST!) clean up mantis > 2. migrate to a different bug tracker. > > As for cleaning up: Resolving about 10 obsolete issues per day should be > enough to get mantis quite empty soon, I've suggested that some days ago on > devl. > > Personally, I use mantis for having a overview of all WoT/Freetalk tasks > which > need to be finished before the next release, it IS very useful to me. > > xor
I have to more or less completely agree with xor. Removing all the old bugs seems like "running away from all the problems" (literally, kind of). As xor also mentions, we really should focus on keeping the data on mantis UP-TO-DATE instead by making sure that bugs are assigned/closed/updated etc. instead of simply submitting & forgetting. I've been closing a bunch of bugs related to the (now deprecated) FireFox profile and the old Windows installer, but I have far from enough knowledge about all the technical Freenet stuff to deal with that kind of bugs. - Zero3
