On Feb 3, 2013, at 11:47 AM, Sergiu Dumitriu <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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?

Good question. Since we still haven't released XWiki 4.5 final, I think we 
should drop it and replace it with the weekly BFD starting 21st

WDYT?

Thanks
-Vincent

> 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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