On 02/02/2013 09:55 AM, Vincent Massol wrote:
> Hi devs,
> 
> We've closing the 4.x cycle and here's the result of bugs fixed vs bugs 
> created during the past 360 days:
> http://snag.gy/MZxh7.jpg
> 
> As you can see:
> * More issues were created than fixed: 919 created vs 844 fixed
> * During the whole time, the red has been winning
> 
> What this means is that overall we're loosing the quality war. Of course bugs 
> are not evenly distributed and it may happen that created bugs are peripheral 
> but they're still bugs and since they've been reported they have affected 
> users…
> 
> Thus I propose that for the 5.x cycle we take some drastic action and do a 
> Bug Fixing Day every week in en effort to have green be the default (ie more 
> bugs fixed than created).
> 
> At least it would be great if we could try it for a while and see how it goes.
> 
> If you agree, what about doing that every Thursday, starting with the 21st of 
> February(since 11th is the final 4.5 release)?
> 
> WDYT?

Sounds good. What happens with the monthly BFD that was supposed to
happen on the 7th?

To reduce the burnout, we should see each BFD not as a hard push to
close as many bugs as possible, but as a day when devs are free to work
on bugs, not on roadmap features.

> Thanks
> -Vincent
> 
> PS: To see past BFD events, see:
> http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/DevelopmentPractices#HXWikiDays



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Sergiu Dumitriu
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