Hi, I hereby wave my "AS A LONG TERM VOLUNTEER I AM SEVERELY PISSED OFF"-joker, I really want this mail to get some attention:
Some months ago I have reviewed over 500 issues (I guess its more like 1000, I stopped counting at 500) in the bugtracker to close as many as possible and assign target versions to as many as possible. Now some current statistics from the bug tracker: ============================================ - Issues opened & resolved in the last N days: 30 days: opened 24, resolved 2 60 days: opened 70, resolved 12 90 days: opened 99, resolved 18 - Total open issues: 1578 - Average open time of ALL resolved issues: 232 days !!!!!!!!!!!!!! - Issues with target version 0.8(-beta1) / on roadmap for 0.8: 411 ============================================ And now have a look at the brand new "Roadmap" page in the wiki for 0.8: http://new-wiki.freenetproject.org/Roadmap/0.8 Does this look like 400 issues? NO. (To be honest it at least links to the roadmap page in the bugtracker which shows the 400 issues. At the bottom....) And now guess which date is mentioned in the IRC meeting about the 0.8 release? NOVEMBER OR CHRISTMAS. It's IMPOSSIBLE to resolve 400 issues until then So people are planning to release 0.8 while IGNORING what our developers and users have flagged as important for 0.8 Now PLEASE don't say again that most of the issues are NOT important - this will only show that you are NOT properly using the bugtracker: IF you have read most of them, then WHY did you not change the target versions? This is a SHAME. And it really PISSES ME OFF. I have continuously asked you to process them toad and you keep stating that most of them are unimportant. IF they are unimportant then ASSIGN DIFFERENT TARGET VERSIONS PLEASE, instead of just IGNORING the bugtracker for MONTHS - which obviously is the fact if we consider the opened/resolved numbers for the past 90 days... This is NOT for the sake of satisfying me or annoying anyone, but for the sake of *professional* development: In a multi-(hundred?)-thousand lines of code project, it is IMPOSSIBLE to manage what has to be done WITHOUT a LIST of it. And this LIST is the BUGTRACKER. And the list is being IGNORED for months. Also, do not forget that you are stepping on the feet of our users if the average time of processing an issue is 230 days. They don't report issues so we can ignore them. Because I know that this email will not have any effect probably I suggest we change our policy for releasing new versions (version as in 0.7.5, 0.8, etc.) to: ============================================ 1. ALL issues with the given target version in the bugtracker must be resolved, closed or assigned a different target version. NO release with a single open issues in the roadmap page (= with the given target version). 2. NO release if there are any issues with block/crash severity and no target version. They must be assigned a target version first, which will cause rule 1 to hit maybe. ============================================ I think as a software project which involves MONEY from DONATIONS we can all agree that it is absolutely SANE to process all issues reported by our users (= DONORS and VOLUNTEERS) before releasing new versions and it is INSANE in terms of politeness and quality management that we keep releasing new versions for years without following the two rules which I just proposed. Also, the fact should be mentioned that most of our money comes from a single, large donor and I don't want to imagine what would happen if they looked at our bugtracker so we should really clean the damn thing up while nobody has noticed that we give a shit about bug reports. - I am damn serious when I say "INSANE", we are in the science & computer age and yet we don't do proper project management at all. We should try to behave like engineers and not like children who always just run towards the next most colorful piece of candy. (Which we do, we continuously keep implementing new stuff instead of fixing the old stuff because programming new stuff is fun) Greetings and sorry for being harsh - but I am running out of ideas how to enforce bugtracker usage :( - xor -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part. URL: <https://emu.freenetproject.org/pipermail/devl/attachments/20101019/985f32be/attachment.pgp>
