On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 10:31, R. David Murray <rdmur...@bitdance.com>wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 09:47:50 -0800, Brett Cannon wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 17:57, Brian Curtin <brian.cur...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 14:25, Brett Cannon <br...@python.org> wrote: > > >> * any changes needed to the issue tracker to help with the workflow? > > >> (stage field seems like a failed experiment and we now have several > > >> effective triage people who can help w/ guiding changes) > > >> > > > I think it would be interesting to see how people are using the > tracker, or > > > how they want to be using it. For example, there are currently over > 1500 > > > open issues with no stage set, some of which seemingly haven't been > read by > > > anyone at all. Would a properly set stage field save issues from > falling > > > into a black hole? > > > > > "Using" is the key word there. I know this thread went on about how bugs > > tend to end up being left open, but what I was proposing to talk about > was > > whether there is any shift desired by the seasoned tracker users to help > in > > their work. For instance, the Stage field was meant to help, but I don't > > think it is really getting used much, which makes it at best just a UI > junk > > and at worst something to confuse new users. So I just wanted to discuss > > things as a group to see if we could streamline some things, add others, > > etc. > > Well, I for one find the stage field useful. It reminds me at a glance > where the issue is at in the workflow (and 'not set' is a valid place > in the workflow that an issue sometimes stays in for a while for reason > other than not having been triaged yet). I suspect that if we discussed > it as a group (we who make the most changes on the tracker) we could > improve it, and the interface in general. > > By the way, you could talk to people who aren't going to be at the > summit on #python-dev; I think all the currently tracker-active people > hang out there on a regular basis. > > Sounds reasonable. > I'll have to give some thought to what changes/improvements might be > most useful, now that I've been doing this for a while. How about everyone who is active on bugs.python.org give it some thought and we can try to have a discussion at some point in the relatively near future. -Brett
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