On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 10:40 AM, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Caty > > > On 30 Jan 2014 at 10:38:24, Ecaterina Moraru (Valica) > ([email protected](mailto:[email protected])) wrote: > >> On Thu, Jan 30, 2014 at 11:20 AM, [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! >> > >> >> Congrats to everyone. It is most fun to participate in BFDs and cleaning >> issues gives you a 'clean' feeling :) >> >> >> > >> > 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? >> > >> G.1) Improvements issues closing day > > Indeed I meant to add this one and forgot. It's an interesting one! > >> G.2) Bug reporting day :) > > Not sure I understand this one... Whenever someone sees a bug he reports it... > >> G.3) Pull requests closing day > > Yes, good one too. > >> G.4) e.x.o cleaning day (marking old extensions as deprecated, writing >> documentation, specifying what version the extension is working on, etc. ) > > This one could be part of the Documentation Fixing Day IMO.
I agree, for me "Documentation Fixing Day" is more or less a xwiki.org day. > > Thanks > -Vincent > >> Thanks, >> Caty >> >> >> > >> > 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 > _______________________________________________ > devs mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs -- Thomas Mortagne _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
