Bruno Postle wrote:
> It's the result of not maintaining the tracker very well.

AFAIK you're the only person who works consistently through the 
trackers. Others, including me, look occasionally at it. Do you see ways 
how we can help you maintain the tracker better? should we codify the 
process of tracker maintenance?

As a minimum I would suggest keeping track of new vs. existing bugs; a 
set of rules on how to triage new bugs; and a way to tell other 
volunteers what dateline divides the existing vs. new bugs (i.e. when 
were the bugs triaged last).

Things would work this way:

1. when a volunteer has time to go over the new bugs, he/she goes to the 
bugtracker, filters for "Open" status and sort by "Opened":
<http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?words=tracker_browse&sort=open_date&sortdir=asc&group_id=77506&atid=550441&status=1>

2. the volunteer scrolls down to the last "cutoff date" and looks at 
each new bug report added after the cutoff date.

3. For each bug report:
- determine if it is a duplicate or can otherwise be closed
- if it is anonymous, determine the likelyhood that we may need 
additional feedback and eventually set it to pending status (we may want 
to word out a policy about anonymous bug reports)
- assign Category, Group, Priority - when in doubt, ask on the mailing list
- add clarifying questions to the bug ticket if applicable
- if necessary, post a message to the mailing list about the new bug. 
e.g. if the bug report is anonymous and we need more information, post 
to the mailing list, chances are the reporter is here and just did not 
log on to SF

4. at the end of the day, post a message to the mailing list saying that 
bugs from old cutoff date to new cutoff date have been triaged. Ideally 
the new cutoff date is today, but sometimes people don't have the time 
to process all the new bugs that are in the tracker, and we need a way 
to enable team work on this. So the new cutoff date is the pointer for 
the next bug triage volunteer.


> Maybe we should just use the numeric scoring and remove the 'hugin 
> critical' group (we don't have a 'batch processor critical' group).
> 
> i.e. '9' is a blocker.

I second that. I started updating 
<http://wiki.panotools.org/Development_of_Open_Source_tools> and 
specific to this subject I edited under 
<http://wiki.panotools.org/Development_of_Open_Source_tools#Release_Cycle> 
the link to the bugs that will have been fixed before the next Hugin 
will be released.

Feel free to add/edit/change/improve. I'm just me, pushing for the 
systematic approach :)

Yuv

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