tl;dr: * expect about 600 more bug mails * tell me about any themes or sorts of bugs that you want to see kept in the high bug list
So, in the last overhaul of our bug triage policy, we agreed that we'd regularly do a sweep of the high bugs and keep them under control - there should be only 6 months worth of bugs there (which is 500 for maintenance squads @ 25/week + 100 or so feature bugs which are quite a bit heavier). With our mediums overhauled - and that felt really good, there was -so much- crud in there that was already fixed or now irrelevant - I'm going to tackle the overdue review of High bugs. This means that there will be about 600 bugs, or 50% of the high bugs, that we need to say 'this is less important than the rest of the highs', which is a lot of bugmail :(. Now, we might argue that this isn't worth doing because with 260 criticals we don't have highs being worked on anyway, so 'meh' - but thats too simple a view IMO: the feature squads are still working on high bugs, and the overlarge set of highs impacts them to a degree. Secondly, the whole point of doing an assessment of highs is that unlike criticals we have no objective rules to instantly categorise everything that should be high: sure we have those bugs for features which are in the queue to be worked on, but beyond that high merely represents our collective opinion about things we'd like to do very soon (be it a pet bug, a feature request for Ubuntu, or UI glitches that are just so annoying!). This is a crucial difference between the critical and high buckets, and regardless of what we do with criticals that difference will remain: we'll have a large number of bugs which we want to work on for primarily subjective reasons, and we need to keep that list under control (or alternatively not have bug importance at all - a valid choice but not our current policy :)). If the record we had with mediums holds true, assessing all 1200 high bugs will close a significant number (possibly a hundred or more) but beyond that its going to be hard slog deciding which of them is more urgent; so I expect I will make some mistakes and unqueue something that truely needs to be in the 'next 6 month queue' : if I do that, please just pop it back to high - I won't argue... but I will ask that if there is more than one or two such bugs you take the time to find and unqueue a couple of the other highs. I've spoken to Matt and gotten a list of feature work bugs to look out for; do you have any pet things that I should be holding dear while I do this broad assessment? E.g. ie support, or js support, or performance... Cheers, Rob _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev Post to : launchpad-dev@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
