Hi Andrew,
On 06.07.2014 14:25, Andrew Featherstone wrote:
Hi All,
I was wondering what the current state of issue tracking is for the
SCons project. There was some talk a little while back about moving
away from Tigris to a different issue tracker, has that happened? I
thought I'd have a quick look on Tigris, but clicking "All Open
Issues" returns a warning that there are too many issues to be
displayed! Viewing open bugs and sorting to priority gives a large
chunk of bugs that haven't be touched in years, and some of which look
like they are resolved (e.g. issue 1985
<http://scons.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1985> looks like it's
implemented here
<http://www.scons.org/doc/2.3.1/HTML/scons-user.html#f-Platform>).
It's confusing that there are open P1 bugs that don't make it into
subsequent releases, or at least have a comment that explains why
they're being pushed to release n+1.
What's the model used for triaging and resolving issues? The "we're
looking, so email us" approach on http://www.scons.org/dev.php feels a
bit old-fashioned, particularly compared to the "social coding" feel
you get on Github where you can comment on an issue, create a branch
on a fork and try to close the issue via a pull request.
the Tigris tracker is still active at the moment, migration to other
options (GoogleCode/Roundup) has started. It's mainly used to collect
bug reports from users that aren't able to provide patches/fixes on
their own. So they get into the queue, waiting for a developer to pick
them up. I recently initiated a bug scraping to reduce the number of
open issues, see:
http://two.pairlist.net/pipermail/scons-dev/2014-May/001369.html
http://two.pairlist.net/pipermail/scons-dev/2014-May/001417.html
http://two.pairlist.net/pipermail/scons-dev/2014-May/001424.html
If you find an issue that you can fix immediately, go ahead and create a
pull request please ( see also
http://scons.org/wiki/DeveloperGuide/Introduction ). After switching the
VCS to Mercurial/Bitbucket this is the preferred method for getting
changes into the core. The webpages, and the somewhat misleading fact
that the Tigris tracker is still in place, may draw a different
picture...if you have ideas for making things more clear to other users,
let us know please.
Best regards,
Dirk
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