Rasmus Johansson <ras...@mariadb.com> writes: > This is a suggestion on how to deal with minor or lower priority bugs > and tasks in JIRA, http://mariadb.org/jira .
> Please provide your thoughts. Do you think it's an OK way to deal with > the minors or do you prefer some other way? The whole Jira thing is a farce. It has been going on for a year or so and it has ended up exactly as bad as I feared. It's so broken I don't know where to start. I spent lots of effort early in MariaDB to get a working release process, now it's totally destroyed, and every single minor release is taken hostage in an attempt to work around missing management of developer time. There is 100% focus on completion of whatever random tasks are in Jira and 0% on ensuring good quality of tasks actually completed. I once read an anecdote from a team at Microsoft (could be anywhere). There was management like this with lists of tasks/bugs to complete and release deadlines and such. The logical consequence of course was to "complete" tasks by pushing empty code - then it was complete, and actually doing the work was then a new "bug". MariaDB development is not a sausage factory. When Jira was initially suggested, my first comment was "we cannot use that". I won't bother people anymore with my opinions on this, they have not changed and are unlikely to do so. Hope this helps, - Kristian. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~maria-developers Post to : maria-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~maria-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
