Hey Winformers! With our new bugzilla, I spent some time trying to get our bugs a little under control. I am proposing the following guidelines to be used when we triage new bugs. Note that this is for triaging. When a new bug is submitted, don't expect anything to be set correctly. :)
OS Field: Use Linux if it only occurs on Linux, Windows if it only occurs on Windows, Mac if it only occurs on Mac, and All if it is not OS dependent. If it only occurs on a specific version of Linux/Windows/Mac, then use the more specific options. (Most of our bugs are All.) Summary: Now that the Summary field is sortable (my favorite new feature), please prefix it with the control or area that is primarily affected, like "Button: ", "TreeView: ", or "Printing: ". If there is already a bug with an appropriate prefix, use that on new bugs instead of creating a new prefix. This makes it really easy to say, find all the TreeView bugs. [Verify]: If I couldn't reproduce something, I added the [Verify] prefix to the summary. If you can, please try to repro these. If no one can repro them and the submitter doesn't help us out, these will get closed. [Patch]: If there is a proposed patch to something, add the [Patch] prefix to the summary. Please occasionally look at the bugs with [Patch] and if you are capable of reviewing it, please do. Severity: I tend to ignore this one, but my loose guidelines are: - Enhancement: Missing feature. - Minor/Normal: Bug that doesn't crash mono/application. - Major/Critical: Bug that crashes mono/application. If anyone wants to expand on this, feel free. These are the fields that I find useful when I am going through bugs. If anyone has any comments or suggestions of other fields we should be using or that we should use differently, please speak up. When it feels like we have some consensus, I'll add the guidelines to the winforms wiki. Thanks! Jonathan _______________________________________________ Mono-winforms-list maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-winforms-list
