Hi,

First of all, congrats to everyone.

It would be great if we have a "Testing day" and a "Localization day",
because, for example, in Romanian the localization is not really great.

Andreea


On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 11:20 AM, [email protected] <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hi devs,
>
> We've done one year of BFD on the 5.x cycle and this has allowed us to
> reach a greater goal: one of having caught up with the number of open bugs.
> We've first succeeded in closing more bugs than there has been created bugs
> over a year, then over 2 years, then over 3 years, then over 4 years and
> we're very close to succeed for the  last 1600 days (ie 4.4 years)! :)
>
> I'd like to congratulate everyone on this achievement which is really
> awesome. I don't know a lot of other projects who've had this kind of
> success so we can be proud of ourselves!
>
> Current result can be seen at:
> http://jira.xwiki.org/secure/Dashboard.jspa?selectPageId=10352
>
> Note that there are still 357 opened bugs which were created since the
> beginning of the project.
>
> My feeling is that it's hard to keep the sustained pace we've set on the
> BFD days and I think we need a bit of fresh air.
>
> Also now that we've caught up with bugs I believe the most important part
> is to just try to contain the bug ratio so that we're about even in term of
> number of new bugs vs umber of bugs we close. If we can achieve this it
> would already be a very nice success.
>
> So what I'm proposing for the 6.x cycle is this:
> - one week out of 2 we continue doing a BFD
> - the other week we do a rolling XWiki Day on another activity
>
> Here's a list of other activities we could do (first mentioned in this
> thread: http://markmail.org/message/a5ew5ilbgxvf67lu ):
>
> A) Doc Fixing Day: improve xwiki.org
> B) Deprecation Fixing Day: reduce # of deprecated calls and move code to
> legacy
> C) Violation Fixing Dy: reduce # of violations. 12K right now on platform
> for ex (see
> http://sonar.xwiki.org/drilldown/issues/org.xwiki.platform:xwiki-platform)
> D) Javadoc Improvement Day: Add missing javadocs in our code and remove
> checkstyle excludes
> E) Code Coverage Day: Add as many tests as possible (unit and functional)
> to increase the TPC
> F) Broken Links Day: fix as many broken links as possible on xwiki.org.
> To find them is easy: we just need to enable the IRC Link Checker botlet
> and wait on IRC to get them listed!
> G) Others you would consider interesting?
>
> The only constraint for defining a day is that it contains small elements
> that can be fixed quickly which is the case for the proposals listed above.
>
>
> So what I propose to be precise:
> - one week out of 2 we do a BFD
> - the other week we do one of each (A through F). Then once we've done a
> full round we decide which ones are the best for the project, which ones we
> want to drop and which ones we want to repeat more often than others.
>
> I also propose that the 6th and 13th we still do a BFD and on the 20th of
> Feb we start doing A, then BFD, then B, etc.
>
> WDYT? Any other proposal or better idea?
>
> Thanks
> -Vincent
>
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