Re: REQ Fixing really old bugs

2005-10-19 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Le 19 oct. 05, à 05:20, Antonio Gallardo a écrit : ...Closing the open bugs is like deleting this knowledge database. Bugzilla is showing how we cares about the user reports. IMHO, the list should be a TODO list for the community... Note that issues don't necessarily have to stay closed, we

Re: REQ Fixing really old bugs

2005-10-18 Thread Antonio Gallardo
Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: Le 15 oct. 05, à 19:00, Antonio Gallardo a écrit : ...If users got the time to report the bugs, I think at least we owe them a real bug review. Just request more info if needed. WDYT? I think that issues are piling up in bugzilla and we obviously don't have

Re: REQ Fixing really old bugs

2005-10-17 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Le 15 oct. 05, à 19:00, Antonio Gallardo a écrit : ...If users got the time to report the bugs, I think at least we owe them a real bug review. Just request more info if needed. WDYT? I think that issues are piling up in bugzilla and we obviously don't have the manpower to take care of

Re: REQ Fixing really old bugs

2005-10-16 Thread Joerg Heinicke
On 15.10.2005 18:50, Antonio Gallardo wrote: If a bug was marked as NEEDINFO and the user does not provided more info in 2-3 months, then mark the bug as expired and close the bug. I think there are already some candidates to be expired. I also like this policy more than the automatic way.

Re: REQ Fixing really old bugs

2005-10-16 Thread Antonio Gallardo
Joerg Heinicke wrote: On 15.10.2005 18:50, Antonio Gallardo wrote: If a bug was marked as NEEDINFO and the user does not provided more info in 2-3 months, then mark the bug as expired and close the bug. I think there are already some candidates to be expired. I also like this policy more

Re: REQ Fixing really old bugs

2005-10-15 Thread Antonio Gallardo
Torsten Curdt wrote: On 10.10.2005, at 21:18, Gregor J. Rothfuss wrote: Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: Le 10 oct. 05, à 20:32, Geert Josten a écrit : How about doing a bug amnesty as follows? Good idea. Hasn't this been done before with some of the bugs?... some, yes, but not on a large

Re: REQ Fixing really old bugs

2005-10-15 Thread Antonio Gallardo
Ralph Goers wrote: Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: Le 10 oct. 05, à 16:07, hepabolu a écrit : ...while looking at Bugzilla I noticed some open bugs entered as far back as 2002. Could someone have a look and do _something_ about it? It's not a good sign that bugs are open thatlong... I

Re: REQ Fixing really old bugs

2005-10-15 Thread Antonio Gallardo
Joerg Heinicke wrote: Bertrand Delacretaz bdelacretaz at apache.org writes: I don't think we'll ever get there, my last count says we have 303 open bugzilla issues, and my perception is that we have little collective energy to analyze and prioritize them, we've been chasing this for

Re: REQ Fixing really old bugs

2005-10-15 Thread Antonio Gallardo
hepabolu wrote: Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: Le 12 oct. 05, à 13:06, Torsten Curdt a écrit : Instead of waiting for this *not* to happen (and we know it's not going to happen) I'd say - let's ask the people whether those old bugs still apply... I like the idea - how do you suggest asking?

Re: REQ Fixing really old bugs

2005-10-15 Thread Antonio Gallardo
Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: Le 12 oct. 05, à 17:05, Joerg Heinicke a écrit : ...Don't we have the votes feature of bugzilla for prioritizing the issues?... We might, but an active and traceable action from the bug reporters/CC people is more useful I think. No. The votes does not work

Re: REQ Fixing really old bugs

2005-10-15 Thread hepabolu
Antonio Gallardo wrote: hepabolu wrote: Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: Le 12 oct. 05, à 13:06, Torsten Curdt a écrit : Instead of waiting for this *not* to happen (and we know it's not going to happen) I'd say - let's ask the people whether those old bugs still apply... I like the idea -

Re: REQ Fixing really old bugs

2005-10-12 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Le 11 oct. 05, à 10:25, hepabolu a écrit : Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: How about doing a bug amnesty as follows? As already said by others, I too am not fond of a bug amnesty ...I know this means a lot of work, and takes certainly a lot more effort than simply expire, but it really

Re: REQ Fixing really old bugs

2005-10-12 Thread hepabolu
Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: Le 11 oct. 05, à 10:25, hepabolu a écrit : Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: How about doing a bug amnesty as follows? As already said by others, I too am not fond of a bug amnesty ...I know this means a lot of work, and takes certainly a lot more effort than

Re: REQ Fixing really old bugs

2005-10-12 Thread Torsten Curdt
Doing an amnesty would *not* mean that we don't care about the bugs, quite the contrary: we care enough about them to setup a quick an efficient process to find out which ones really need our attention. Think so too! But if you think we have enough collective energy and manpower to

Re: REQ Fixing really old bugs

2005-10-12 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Le 12 oct. 05, à 13:06, Torsten Curdt a écrit : Instead of waiting for this *not* to happen (and we know it's not going to happen) I'd say - let's ask the people whether those old bugs still apply... I like the idea - how do you suggest asking? We could add a comment to each open issue with

Re: REQ Fixing really old bugs

2005-10-12 Thread hepabolu
Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: Le 12 oct. 05, à 13:06, Torsten Curdt a écrit : Instead of waiting for this *not* to happen (and we know it's not going to happen) I'd say - let's ask the people whether those old bugs still apply... I like the idea - how do you suggest asking? We could add a

Re: REQ Fixing really old bugs

2005-10-12 Thread Torsten Curdt
Instead of waiting for this *not* to happen (and we know it's not going to happen) I'd say - let's ask the people whether those old bugs still apply... I like the idea - how do you suggest asking? We could add a comment to each open issue with the question (which would send a mail to bug

Re: REQ Fixing really old bugs

2005-10-12 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Le 12 oct. 05, à 14:08, hepabolu a écrit : Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: Le 12 oct. 05, à 13:06, Torsten Curdt a écrit : Instead of waiting for this *not* to happen (and we know it's not going to happen) I'd say - let's ask the people whether those old bugs still apply... I like the idea - how

Re: REQ Fixing really old bugs

2005-10-12 Thread hepabolu
Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: Yes, do a query like http://tinyurl.com/9nxs2 and select change several bugs at once. Then we can enter a comment (which people will get by mail) and change the issue state. Caveats: -For some reason the mark as NEEDINFO option does not appear in this case, so we

Re: REQ Fixing really old bugs

2005-10-12 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Le 12 oct. 05, à 15:34, hepabolu a écrit : ...Fine by me, but in the wiki page you say something along the lines if you don't respond, the state stays WONTFIX, which in effect means you have to mark all bugs for WONTFIX... Yes, using the change several bugs at once means we have to set all

Re: REQ Fixing really old bugs

2005-10-12 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Le 12 oct. 05, à 15:39, Bertrand Delacretaz a écrit : Le 12 oct. 05, à 15:34, hepabolu a écrit : ...Fine by me, but in the wiki page you say something along the lines if you don't respond, the state stays WONTFIX, which in effect means you have to mark all bugs for WONTFIX... Yes, using

Re: REQ Fixing really old bugs

2005-10-12 Thread hepabolu
Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: So here's the suggested plan: 1) Set all open issues (except those filed since September 1st) to LATER and add to each issue the comment shown under Bugzilla comment to send on http://wiki.apache.org/cocoon/BugzillaIssuesCleanup 2) People who want to confirm

Re: REQ Fixing really old bugs

2005-10-12 Thread Vadim Gritsenko
Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: Steps 1) and 4) can be done en masse via the change several bugs at once function of bugzilla. En masse. That is exactly the approach I was trying to avoid. :-( What is the primary goal - do you want simply to get rid of issues or you want to make Cocoon better? I

Re: REQ Fixing really old bugs

2005-10-12 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Le 12 oct. 05, à 16:53, Vadim Gritsenko a écrit : What is the primary goal - do you want simply to get rid of issues or you want to make Cocoon better?... My goal is to prioritize the issues, find out among these 300 those who are worth working on. Without having to spend lonely hours on

Re: REQ Fixing really old bugs

2005-10-12 Thread Joerg Heinicke
On 12.10.2005 17:03, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: My goal is to prioritize the issues, find out among these 300 those who are worth working on. Don't we have the votes feature of bugzilla for prioritizing the issues? Jörg PS: I can send emails the standard way again (POP3, GMX). GMX got

Re: REQ Fixing really old bugs

2005-10-12 Thread Vadim Gritsenko
Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: Le 12 oct. 05, à 16:53, Vadim Gritsenko a écrit : We could also, after three weeks, reopen the issues to which people haven't responded, and set them to a low priority or use another flag to identify them, instead of letting them in LATER state as suggested. I can

Re: REQ Fixing really old bugs

2005-10-12 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Le 12 oct. 05, à 17:05, Joerg Heinicke a écrit : ...Don't we have the votes feature of bugzilla for prioritizing the issues?... We might, but an active and traceable action from the bug reporters/CC people is more useful I think. -Bertrand

Re: REQ Fixing really old bugs

2005-10-10 Thread Ralph Goers
We joked about this at the GT (it isn't really funny though) that we need a status of no one cares. hepabolu wrote: Guys, while looking at Bugzilla I noticed some open bugs entered as far back as 2002. Could someone have a look and do _something_ about it? It's not a good sign that bugs

Re: REQ Fixing really old bugs

2005-10-10 Thread Geert Josten
It is not a bad thing to prioritize the bugs and perhaps leave out the least critical of the old bugs.. G. Ralph Goers wrote: We joked about this at the GT (it isn't really funny though) that we need a status of no one cares. hepabolu wrote: Guys, while looking at Bugzilla I noticed

Re: REQ Fixing really old bugs

2005-10-10 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Le 10 oct. 05, à 16:07, hepabolu a écrit : ...while looking at Bugzilla I noticed some open bugs entered as far back as 2002. Could someone have a look and do _something_ about it? It's not a good sign that bugs are open thatlong... I don't think we'll ever get there, my last count says we

Re: REQ Fixing really old bugs

2005-10-10 Thread Geert Josten
How about doing a bug amnesty as follows? Good idea. Hasn't this been done before with some of the bugs? G.

Re: REQ Fixing really old bugs

2005-10-10 Thread Bertrand Delacretaz
Le 10 oct. 05, à 20:32, Geert Josten a écrit : How about doing a bug amnesty as follows? Good idea. Hasn't this been done before with some of the bugs?... some, yes, but not on a large scale, which I think we need now. -Bertrand

Re: REQ Fixing really old bugs

2005-10-10 Thread Jason Johnston
On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 21:01 +0200, Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: Le 10 oct. 05, à 20:32, Geert Josten a écrit : How about doing a bug amnesty as follows? Good idea. Hasn't this been done before with some of the bugs?... some, yes, but not on a large scale, which I think we need now.

Re: REQ Fixing really old bugs

2005-10-10 Thread Gregor J. Rothfuss
Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: Le 10 oct. 05, à 20:32, Geert Josten a écrit : How about doing a bug amnesty as follows? Good idea. Hasn't this been done before with some of the bugs?... some, yes, but not on a large scale, which I think we need now. mozilla did this recently, too. they had

Re: REQ Fixing really old bugs

2005-10-10 Thread Vadim Gritsenko
Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: Le 10 oct. 05, à 16:07, hepabolu a écrit : ...while looking at Bugzilla I noticed some open bugs entered as far back as 2002. Could someone have a look and do _something_ about it? It's not a good sign that bugs are open thatlong... I don't think we'll ever get

Re: REQ Fixing really old bugs

2005-10-10 Thread Ralph Goers
Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: Le 10 oct. 05, à 16:07, hepabolu a écrit : ...while looking at Bugzilla I noticed some open bugs entered as far back as 2002. Could someone have a look and do _something_ about it? It's not a good sign that bugs are open thatlong... I don't think we'll ever

Re: REQ Fixing really old bugs

2005-10-10 Thread Joerg Heinicke
Bertrand Delacretaz bdelacretaz at apache.org writes: I don't think we'll ever get there, my last count says we have 303 open bugzilla issues, and my perception is that we have little collective energy to analyze and prioritize them, we've been chasing this for months now without

Re: REQ Fixing really old bugs

2005-10-10 Thread Joerg Heinicke
Vadim Gritsenko vadim at reverycodes.com writes: 286, or 252 without roadmap. Including new state NEEDINFO? That one missing was the reason my counter did not match the one in the regular (weekly?) mails sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Joerg

Re: REQ Fixing really old bugs

2005-10-10 Thread Andrew Stevens
From: Vadim Gritsenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 15:36:28 -0400 Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: ... * 22732: Cocoon Servlet can't be included Either we provide a way to include output of Cocoon, or update documentation to state that such usage is not supported at all. Since you

Re: REQ Fixing really old bugs

2005-10-10 Thread Torsten Curdt
On 10.10.2005, at 21:18, Gregor J. Rothfuss wrote: Bertrand Delacretaz wrote: Le 10 oct. 05, à 20:32, Geert Josten a écrit : How about doing a bug amnesty as follows? Good idea. Hasn't this been done before with some of the bugs?... some, yes, but not on a large scale, which I think we