Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo Bugday

2013-02-28 Thread Sergey Popov
28.02.2013 01:30, Peter Stuge пишет:
 Tom Wijsman wrote:
 his sole two bugs
 
 Is there a rule in Gentoo that forbids a dev to fix a bug assigned to
 someone else? That would make absolutely no sense to me.

Without primary contact to bug's assignee(personally, of, if bug is
assigned to project - to member of this project) - no, it's not good.
Exception - maintainer-needed@ bugs.

-- 
Best regards, Sergey Popov
Gentoo Linux Developer
Desktop-effects project lead



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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo Bugday

2013-02-28 Thread Pavlos Ratis
From now we are have and an event g+ page :
https://plus.google.com/events/cnevit57nm91ulji4bj4vt7910s  :)

On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 1:33 PM, Sergey Popov pinkb...@gentoo.org wrote:
 28.02.2013 01:30, Peter Stuge пишет:
 Tom Wijsman wrote:
 his sole two bugs

 Is there a rule in Gentoo that forbids a dev to fix a bug assigned to
 someone else? That would make absolutely no sense to me.

 Without primary contact to bug's assignee(personally, of, if bug is
 assigned to project - to member of this project) - no, it's not good.
 Exception - maintainer-needed@ bugs.

 --
 Best regards, Sergey Popov
 Gentoo Linux Developer
 Desktop-effects project lead




Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo Bugday

2013-02-28 Thread Roy Bamford
On 2013.02.28 02:14, Pavlos Ratis wrote:
 @neddyseagoon: Yeah it would be great to have it back, I think the 
 day
 should remain as is. Every first Saturday of every month. Thanks.
[snip]


Pavlos,

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-952608.html


Poke me the weekend before bugday and I'll do the forums announce.
Eventually, it will be a habit.

-- 
Regards,

Roy Bamford
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo Bugday

2013-02-27 Thread Theo Chatzimichos
On Tuesday 26 of February 2013 22:28:13 Alec Warner wrote:
 On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 7:14 PM, Michael Palimaka kensing...@gentoo.org 
wrote:
  On 27/02/2013 11:39, Pavlos Ratis wrote:
  Hello everyone,
  
  I would like to announce you a new try to 'revive' the Bugday event.
  As most of the open source projects have their own bugday, I thought
  it would be great to have this event back.  For those who don't know,
  its a monthly 24h event that takes place in #gentoo-bugs. Its goal is
  to close as many bugs as possible . You don't have to be a Gentoo
  expert to participate. Those days are a great way to start joining the
  Gentoo community, improving Bugzilla's and Wiki's quality and looking
  for a mentor to begin the recruitment process. The upcoming bugday
  event is this Saturday and I hope this event will continue in the next
  months. I have created a wiki page for the event[1] and I added some
  guidelines. I have also created a related blog post about the
  event[2].
  
  I have listed some maintainer-wanted and maintainer-need bugs and
  Bugzilla admins also re-enabled the bugday flag. I would like to ask
  the Gentoo project teams to start using this flag to their bugs that
  think that are good to start and enable the flag at them. It would be
  great to a have a really big list with 'good to start' bugs.
  
  It's the first time after a long time that this event will take place,
  so I am looking forward to your participation both users and
  developers and your feedback.
  
  [1] http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Bugday
  [2] http://blog.dastergon.gr/gentoo-bugday/
  
  Thanks,
  Pavlos
  
  Hi,
  
  Thanks for your work, it will be great to see Bugday happening again.
  
  What about the old bugday webpage[1]? It seems a bit broken at the moment,
  but may be useful to get running again.
  Is the code available somewhere? Who has access to the login in the
  footer?
 
 antarus@flycatcher /var/svnroot/bugday $ grep svnbugday /etc/group
 svnbugday:x:4005:gurligebis
 
 It is there, but only gurligebis has r/w. We should migrate it to
 git.o.g.o if possible (all the secrets should be in a separate
 infra-owned repo, basically.)
 
 I have no idea who has access to login.
 
  Best regards,
  Michael
  
  [1] http://bugday.gentoo.org/

I already sent a tarball with the code to Pavlos, let him decide if he wants 
to move it to git.overlays.g.o or replace it with something else

Theo

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo Bugday

2013-02-27 Thread Pavlos Ratis
Unfortunately I didn't have much time to 'refresh' the  website. As
Theo said, he gave me the code of the site but I think it would be
great to have something new. If anyone wants to join, ping me on irc.
We could create a new repo at our Github and start developing. Also if
you want to add new ideas for the Bugday feel free to touch the wiki
page. :)

On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 12:19 PM, Theo Chatzimichos
tampak...@gentoo.org wrote:
 On Tuesday 26 of February 2013 22:28:13 Alec Warner wrote:
 On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 7:14 PM, Michael Palimaka kensing...@gentoo.org
 wrote:
  On 27/02/2013 11:39, Pavlos Ratis wrote:
  Hello everyone,
 
  I would like to announce you a new try to 'revive' the Bugday event.
  As most of the open source projects have their own bugday, I thought
  it would be great to have this event back.  For those who don't know,
  its a monthly 24h event that takes place in #gentoo-bugs. Its goal is
  to close as many bugs as possible . You don't have to be a Gentoo
  expert to participate. Those days are a great way to start joining the
  Gentoo community, improving Bugzilla's and Wiki's quality and looking
  for a mentor to begin the recruitment process. The upcoming bugday
  event is this Saturday and I hope this event will continue in the next
  months. I have created a wiki page for the event[1] and I added some
  guidelines. I have also created a related blog post about the
  event[2].
 
  I have listed some maintainer-wanted and maintainer-need bugs and
  Bugzilla admins also re-enabled the bugday flag. I would like to ask
  the Gentoo project teams to start using this flag to their bugs that
  think that are good to start and enable the flag at them. It would be
  great to a have a really big list with 'good to start' bugs.
 
  It's the first time after a long time that this event will take place,
  so I am looking forward to your participation both users and
  developers and your feedback.
 
  [1] http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Bugday
  [2] http://blog.dastergon.gr/gentoo-bugday/
 
  Thanks,
  Pavlos
 
  Hi,
 
  Thanks for your work, it will be great to see Bugday happening again.
 
  What about the old bugday webpage[1]? It seems a bit broken at the moment,
  but may be useful to get running again.
  Is the code available somewhere? Who has access to the login in the
  footer?

 antarus@flycatcher /var/svnroot/bugday $ grep svnbugday /etc/group
 svnbugday:x:4005:gurligebis

 It is there, but only gurligebis has r/w. We should migrate it to
 git.o.g.o if possible (all the secrets should be in a separate
 infra-owned repo, basically.)

 I have no idea who has access to login.

  Best regards,
  Michael
 
  [1] http://bugday.gentoo.org/

 I already sent a tarball with the code to Pavlos, let him decide if he wants
 to move it to git.overlays.g.o or replace it with something else

 Theo



Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo Bugday

2013-02-27 Thread Peter Stuge
Pavlos Ratis wrote:
 Unfortunately I didn't have much time to 'refresh' the  website. As
 Theo said, he gave me the code of the site but I think it would be
 great to have something new. If anyone wants to join, ping me on irc.
 We could create a new repo at our Github and start developing.

Don't start developing, plz work on bugs instead.


//Peter



Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo Bugday

2013-02-27 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Wed, 27 Feb 2013 20:00:44 +0100
Peter Stuge pe...@stuge.se wrote:

 Pavlos Ratis wrote:
  Unfortunately I didn't have much time to 'refresh' the  website. As
  Theo said, he gave me the code of the site but I think it would be
  great to have something new. If anyone wants to join, ping me on
  irc. We could create a new repo at our Github and start developing.
 
 Don't start developing, plz work on bugs instead.
 
 
 //Peter
 

Then who will develop useful tools to handle bugs more efficiently?

While we're at this topic; I could use a duplicate finder for bug
wrangling to spare other devs from coming across the same bug again,
also a build log parser that only show the relevant bits that matter
so I don't have to waste time grepping for keywords that appear in
file names as well, not to forget about compressed build logs, and for
assigning bugs an integrated herds.xml lookup would be pretty useful...

Using these tools I could process bugs in half the time; and those are
mostly just tools on the bug wrangling side, the dev and ebuild side
could also use some more tools. If nobody wrote tools, we wouldn't have
Bugzilla, Mailing List Daemons and Portage; back in the old days...

Also, your response is quite funny if you consider his sole two bugs
are one low priority bug that's 3 years old and has been reassigned a
few times because it's not worth fixing (aka not an actual problem),
the other one is actually for a tool called recruiting.gentoo.org.

I'd rather see this dev continue developing than wasting time on bugs,
this reminds me that I should do some short term development myself
instead of wasting a lot of time long term; even if I don't end up
benefiting of the cost, any person that follows my footsteps will.


With kind regards,

Tom Wijsman (TomWij)
Gentoo Developer

E-mail address  : tom...@gentoo.org
GPG Public Key  : 6D34E57D
GPG Fingerprint : C165 AF18 AB4C 400B C3D2  ABF0 95B2 1FCD 6D34 E57D


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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo Bugday

2013-02-27 Thread Peter Stuge
Tom Wijsman wrote:
   We could create a new repo at our Github and start developing.
  
  Don't start developing, plz work on bugs instead.
 
 Then who will develop useful tools to handle bugs more efficiently?

Don't get me wrong: I am not hating on useful tools!

I am saying that working on tools is orthogonal to working on open bugs.


 his sole two bugs

Is there a rule in Gentoo that forbids a dev to fix a bug assigned to
someone else? That would make absolutely no sense to me.

No wonder then, that there are several bugs with no activity for
months after I have committed fixed ebuilds to my overlay and
mentioned that in a comment.

He has become a developer so why would he not be able to take
neccessary action to close bugs, even if they haven't been assigned
to him?

- But Peter, you say, don't you see - that would lead to more fixed bugs!

Orly? How is that bad?


(I'm obviously assuming that all developers (but not infra) are
equally competent, since that's the model taught by recruitment.)


 short term
..
 long term

Yes, life is tradeoff. In my experience development of tools is
rather a long term thing, while a day of working on bugs is more
short term. A day short, to be exact. :)

If there are numerous unactionable bugs then perhaps skip them on
that day, and work on shiny bulk processing tools the next day.


Just my 2. But never mind. I guess I'm not supposed to participate
in the bugday anyway. Good for me! :)


//Peter


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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo Bugday

2013-02-27 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Wed, 27 Feb 2013 22:30:38 +0100
Peter Stuge pe...@stuge.se wrote:

 Tom Wijsman wrote:
We could create a new repo at our Github and start developing.
   
   Don't start developing, plz work on bugs instead.
  
  Then who will develop useful tools to handle bugs more efficiently?
 
 Don't get me wrong: I am not hating on useful tools!

That's not an answer to my question.

 I am saying that working on tools is orthogonal to working on open
 bugs.

And I am saying that working on tools that help you work on open bugs is
not orthogonal to fixing open bugs, it helps you fix them efficiently.

  his sole two bugs
 
 Is there a rule in Gentoo that forbids a dev to fix a bug assigned to
 someone else? That would make absolutely no sense to me.

 No wonder then, that there are several bugs with no activity for
 months after I have committed fixed ebuilds to my overlay and
 mentioned that in a comment.

Yes, one shall not commit on packages other developers maintain
without the permission to do such thing. But let's assume the horribly
attaching a patch approach (save two files, compare them, bla...)...

Can you write me a tool that shows these kinds of bugs, easily submit
patches to them and follow up on whether the developer commits them or
retires at one or another point? I don't do any of this for my bugs. 

I could state that working on bugs assigned to someone else is
orthogonal to fixing your own bugs.

 He has become a developer so why would he not be able to take
 neccessary action to close bugs, even if they haven't been assigned
 to him?

Because it isn't as simple as you make it seem like, as stated above.

 - But Peter, you say, don't you see - that would lead to more fixed
 bugs!
 
 Orly? How is that bad?

Y u no serious? U mad?

 (I'm obviously assuming that all developers (but not infra) are
 equally competent, since that's the model taught by recruitment.)

Competence is irrelevant to this discussion, competency is to be
assumed. Though, since you want to discuss this; note that with the
right tools incompetent developers can become more competent, instead
of having no clue where to start they can efficiently start on
something right away and finish it in a timely matter.

  short term
 ..
  long term
 
 Yes, life is tradeoff. In my experience development of tools is
 rather a long term thing, while a day of working on bugs is more
 short term. A day short, to be exact. :)

What experience are you even talking about? Did you write a tool that
handles upon bugs, build logs or something else that applies to the
daily Gentoo Dev process?

 If there are numerous unactionable bugs then perhaps skip them on
 that day, and work on shiny bulk processing tools the next day.

So, we need another tool to mark and bulk process unactionable bugs! Or
at least plan and write the searches for our lovely Bugzilla to do so,
oh, and also CC a ton of people with this madness while we're at it.

 Just my 2. But never mind. I guess I'm not supposed to participate
 in the bugday anyway. Good for me! :)

It's only a day short. The other six days are free to work on tools...


With kind regards,

Tom Wijsman (TomWij)
Gentoo Developer

E-mail address  : tom...@gentoo.org
GPG Public Key  : 6D34E57D
GPG Fingerprint : C165 AF18 AB4C 400B C3D2  ABF0 95B2 1FCD 6D34 E57D


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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo Bugday

2013-02-27 Thread Peter Stuge
Tom Wijsman wrote:
 I am saying that working on tools that help you work on open bugs is
 not orthogonal to fixing open bugs, it helps you fix them efficiently.

Sure, but on the bugday itself it sounds on the name like the idea is
to work on bugs with currently available tools, rather than work on
tools to work on bugs .. some other time.


  Is there a rule in Gentoo that forbids a dev to fix a bug
  assigned to someone else? That would make absolutely no sense to
  me.
 
  No wonder then, that there are several bugs with no activity for
  months after I have committed fixed ebuilds to my overlay and
  mentioned that in a comment.
 
 Yes, one shall not commit on packages other developers maintain
 without the permission to do such thing.

This is basically stupid.

Anyway, commit is one thing, but fixing bugs can be done while still
respecting that rule. I would however make this simple suggestion:

On bugdays every bugfix [optionally for bugs inactive for x days] is
fair game for every developer to commit.

Those who feel threatened by other people touching their bits might
pay more attention to bugs then. It would also promote more
acceptance of other fixing their stuff. I know that several (many?)
developers give blanket permission, and I think that's good, but I
think it's really broken that they have to at all. Back to bugday..


 But let's assume the horribly attaching a patch approach (save
 two files, compare them, bla...)...

Yes, web apps are supremely inefficient shitty tools. I'm very happy
to be able to simply refer to my overlay when I have fixed something.

I do try to also attach fixed files, but I don't always manage.


 Can you write me a tool that shows these kinds of bugs, easily submit
 patches to them and follow up on whether the developer commits them or
 retires at one or another point? I don't do any of this for my bugs.

Bugzilla implicitly does much of that for you already, if you tell it
to send you email for all changes on bugs you have the raw data in
email form, which may be easier to work with sans SQL access to the
bugzilla database. That works really well for me to follow any bugs
that I am interested in, and it's pretty easy to search in email and
see what has happened when, and how much is still open (different
folders).

Submitting patches, no I think that's too broken on the web, and that
something more powerful like an overlay could be used instead - at
the very least for fixes from developers.


 I could state that working on bugs assigned to someone else is
 orthogonal to fixing your own bugs.

Sure - but if all one's own bugs are low priority perhaps it's more
useful on bugday to work on bugs assigned to someone else, if they
aren't doing it themselves.


  He has become a developer so why would he not be able to take
  neccessary action to close bugs, even if they haven't been assigned
  to him?
 
 Because it isn't as simple as you make it seem like, as stated above.

For several bugs that I have fixed, it is precisely that simple.
Fixes have been ready for months and just need to be committed.
I'd dare to call it outright trivial.

They still aren't committed.

Finding them easily? Well maybe a search query that orders by last
activity weighted by severity, number of attachments and fulltext
search for fixed would be a start? I guess that's easy to do even
in bugzilla's web interface?


  - But Peter, you say, don't you see - that would lead to more fixed
  bugs!
  
  Orly? How is that bad?
 
 Y u no serious? U mad?

Not mat, I am being serious - I guess that the uncommitted fixes
mean lack of attention to bugs, which I completely understand. I
further guess that the bugday is an initiative to attend to bugs.

So any developer who wants to help could close bugs by comitting
fixes from others, fixes that are already in bugzilla. I guess the
few bugs that I have done this for are not unique in Gentoo's
bugzilla, likely there are lots of other bugs just like mine, where
users have contributed fixes for stuff that they have run into and it
still hasn't gotten committed, nor reviewed. At least one of my
bugs is even UNCONFIRMED. It's almost mocking the entire bugzilla. :)


  (I'm obviously assuming that all developers (but not infra) are
  equally competent, since that's the model taught by recruitment.)
 
 Competence is irrelevant to this discussion, competency is to be
 assumed.

I agree that it is to be assumed, but I think it is relevant because
I believe that fear of incompetence is the reason why developers feel
threatened by commits from others, so it supports the idea that at
the very least on bugday it would be fine for everyone to commit
everything. (Again, I am assuming that all fixes are correct.)


 Though, since you want to discuss this; note that with the
 right tools incompetent developers can become more competent,
 instead of having no clue where to start they can efficiently
 start on something right away and finish it in a timely matter.


Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo Bugday

2013-02-27 Thread Tom Wijsman
On Thu, 28 Feb 2013 01:20:01 +0100
Peter Stuge pe...@stuge.se wrote:

 Sure, but on the bugday itself it sounds on the name like the idea is
 to work on bugs with currently available tools, rather than work on
 tools to work on bugs .. some other time.

Neither of us did suggest such thing.

  Yes, one shall not commit on packages other developers maintain
  without the permission to do such thing.
 
 This is basically stupid.

But that's just the way it is, because random committing makes no sense.

 Anyway, commit is one thing, but fixing bugs can be done while still
 respecting that rule. I would however make this simple suggestion:
 
 On bugdays every bugfix [optionally for bugs inactive for x days] is
 fair game for every developer to commit.

It works this way for packages (retirement, etc...), but for bugs this
introduces the random committing effect; just because you keep one bug
around for a package and fix all others doesn't mean someone else can
suddenly come and take that bug, fix and apply it blindly.

 Those who feel threatened by other people touching their bits might
 pay more attention to bugs then.

Again more easily said than done, time is limited; not every bug can be
fixed, some require too much effort for what they are worth, ...

 It would also promote more acceptance of other fixing their stuff. I
 know that several (many?) developers give blanket permission, and I
 think that's good, but I think it's really broken that they have to
 at all. Back to bugday..

This model has been in place for years, it's not easily changed.

  But let's assume the horribly attaching a patch approach (save
  two files, compare them, bla...)...
 
 Yes, web apps are supremely inefficient shitty tools. I'm very happy
 to be able to simply refer to my overlay when I have fixed something.

 ...

 Submitting patches, no I think that's too broken on the web, and that
 something more powerful like an overlay could be used instead - at
 the very least for fixes from developers.

That's just moving the extra effort to the person who receives your
patch; who now has to obtain the overlay, sync the overlay, obtain the
file from the overlay and diff that file against his local file to
obtain the actual patch. And if it's not done in a timely manner, too
much may have changed already which makes generating a clean patch hard
and therefore will need them to spent time to figure out which code
actually belongs to the patch. Overlays weren't meant for this...

 I do try to also attach fixed files, but I don't always manage.

I do try to generate patches from overlays, but I don't always manage.

  Can you write me a tool that shows these kinds of bugs, easily
  submit patches to them and follow up on whether the developer
  commits them or retires at one or another point? I don't do any of
  this for my bugs.
 
 Bugzilla implicitly does much of that for you already, if you tell it
 to send you email for all changes on bugs you have the raw data in
 email form, which may be easier to work with sans SQL access to the
 bugzilla database. That works really well for me to follow any bugs
 that I am interested in, and it's pretty easy to search in email and
 see what has happened when, and how much is still open (different
 folders).

How exactly does Bugzilla show these kinds of bugs?

Submitting patches or using overlays, it makes no difference.

Following the bug through mail exactly doesn't show retirement, unless
you CC yourself on a ton of bugs and want to maintain these individual
CCs into archive folders where you look up the oldest mails (because
not every CC is one you want to archive), and you also have to
consider that you don't get mails for changes you commit to the bug.
Sum that up and it's not a reliable approach, unless you write a tool.

  I could state that working on bugs assigned to someone else is
  orthogonal to fixing your own bugs.
 
 Sure - but if all one's own bugs are low priority perhaps it's more
 useful on bugday to work on bugs assigned to someone else, if they
 aren't doing it themselves.

Those bugs are often of equal priority, and I have nothing against
that; I'm just stating that it's much harder to fix other people's
bugs, this is due to the inefficiency that comes along, without tools
being written to aid in this process it'll continue that way.

   He has become a developer so why would he not be able to take
   neccessary action to close bugs, even if they haven't been
   assigned to him?
  
  Because it isn't as simple as you make it seem like, as stated
  above.
 
 For several bugs that I have fixed, it is precisely that simple.
 Fixes have been ready for months and just need to be committed.
 I'd dare to call it outright trivial.

 They still aren't committed.

just being the whole overlay process I outlined above? Not trivial.

 Finding them easily? Well maybe a search query that orders by last
 activity weighted by severity, number of attachments and fulltext
 search for fixed 

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo Bugday

2013-02-27 Thread Pavlos Ratis
@neddyseagoon: Yeah it would be great to have it back, I think the day
should remain as is. Every first Saturday of every month. Thanks.

@TomWij and Peter: Well guys, I think you should not expand the topic
so much, lets stay to the bugday. As I said in my first post, bugday's
goal is to close as many bugs as possible and not to create new tools.
We can create tools(small scripts) in the future that can help us
before the bugday. But in the bugday as an event we should concentrate
on closing bugs.


On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 3:07 AM, Tom Wijsman tom...@gentoo.org wrote:
 On Thu, 28 Feb 2013 01:20:01 +0100
 Peter Stuge pe...@stuge.se wrote:

 Sure, but on the bugday itself it sounds on the name like the idea is
 to work on bugs with currently available tools, rather than work on
 tools to work on bugs .. some other time.

 Neither of us did suggest such thing.

  Yes, one shall not commit on packages other developers maintain
  without the permission to do such thing.

 This is basically stupid.

 But that's just the way it is, because random committing makes no sense.

 Anyway, commit is one thing, but fixing bugs can be done while still
 respecting that rule. I would however make this simple suggestion:

 On bugdays every bugfix [optionally for bugs inactive for x days] is
 fair game for every developer to commit.

 It works this way for packages (retirement, etc...), but for bugs this
 introduces the random committing effect; just because you keep one bug
 around for a package and fix all others doesn't mean someone else can
 suddenly come and take that bug, fix and apply it blindly.

 Those who feel threatened by other people touching their bits might
 pay more attention to bugs then.

 Again more easily said than done, time is limited; not every bug can be
 fixed, some require too much effort for what they are worth, ...

 It would also promote more acceptance of other fixing their stuff. I
 know that several (many?) developers give blanket permission, and I
 think that's good, but I think it's really broken that they have to
 at all. Back to bugday..

 This model has been in place for years, it's not easily changed.

  But let's assume the horribly attaching a patch approach (save
  two files, compare them, bla...)...

 Yes, web apps are supremely inefficient shitty tools. I'm very happy
 to be able to simply refer to my overlay when I have fixed something.

 ...

 Submitting patches, no I think that's too broken on the web, and that
 something more powerful like an overlay could be used instead - at
 the very least for fixes from developers.

 That's just moving the extra effort to the person who receives your
 patch; who now has to obtain the overlay, sync the overlay, obtain the
 file from the overlay and diff that file against his local file to
 obtain the actual patch. And if it's not done in a timely manner, too
 much may have changed already which makes generating a clean patch hard
 and therefore will need them to spent time to figure out which code
 actually belongs to the patch. Overlays weren't meant for this...

 I do try to also attach fixed files, but I don't always manage.

 I do try to generate patches from overlays, but I don't always manage.

  Can you write me a tool that shows these kinds of bugs, easily
  submit patches to them and follow up on whether the developer
  commits them or retires at one or another point? I don't do any of
  this for my bugs.

 Bugzilla implicitly does much of that for you already, if you tell it
 to send you email for all changes on bugs you have the raw data in
 email form, which may be easier to work with sans SQL access to the
 bugzilla database. That works really well for me to follow any bugs
 that I am interested in, and it's pretty easy to search in email and
 see what has happened when, and how much is still open (different
 folders).

 How exactly does Bugzilla show these kinds of bugs?

 Submitting patches or using overlays, it makes no difference.

 Following the bug through mail exactly doesn't show retirement, unless
 you CC yourself on a ton of bugs and want to maintain these individual
 CCs into archive folders where you look up the oldest mails (because
 not every CC is one you want to archive), and you also have to
 consider that you don't get mails for changes you commit to the bug.
 Sum that up and it's not a reliable approach, unless you write a tool.

  I could state that working on bugs assigned to someone else is
  orthogonal to fixing your own bugs.

 Sure - but if all one's own bugs are low priority perhaps it's more
 useful on bugday to work on bugs assigned to someone else, if they
 aren't doing it themselves.

 Those bugs are often of equal priority, and I have nothing against
 that; I'm just stating that it's much harder to fix other people's
 bugs, this is due to the inefficiency that comes along, without tools
 being written to aid in this process it'll continue that way.

   He has become a developer so why would he not 

[gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo Bugday

2013-02-26 Thread Michael Palimaka

On 27/02/2013 11:39, Pavlos Ratis wrote:

Hello everyone,

I would like to announce you a new try to 'revive' the Bugday event.
As most of the open source projects have their own bugday, I thought
it would be great to have this event back.  For those who don't know,
its a monthly 24h event that takes place in #gentoo-bugs. Its goal is
to close as many bugs as possible . You don't have to be a Gentoo
expert to participate. Those days are a great way to start joining the
Gentoo community, improving Bugzilla's and Wiki's quality and looking
for a mentor to begin the recruitment process. The upcoming bugday
event is this Saturday and I hope this event will continue in the next
months. I have created a wiki page for the event[1] and I added some
guidelines. I have also created a related blog post about the
event[2].

I have listed some maintainer-wanted and maintainer-need bugs and
Bugzilla admins also re-enabled the bugday flag. I would like to ask
the Gentoo project teams to start using this flag to their bugs that
think that are good to start and enable the flag at them. It would be
great to a have a really big list with 'good to start' bugs.

It's the first time after a long time that this event will take place,
so I am looking forward to your participation both users and
developers and your feedback.

[1] http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Bugday
[2] http://blog.dastergon.gr/gentoo-bugday/

Thanks,
Pavlos




Hi,

Thanks for your work, it will be great to see Bugday happening again.

What about the old bugday webpage[1]? It seems a bit broken at the 
moment, but may be useful to get running again.

Is the code available somewhere? Who has access to the login in the footer?

Best regards,
Michael

[1] http://bugday.gentoo.org/




Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Gentoo Bugday

2013-02-26 Thread Alec Warner
On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 7:14 PM, Michael Palimaka kensing...@gentoo.org wrote:
 On 27/02/2013 11:39, Pavlos Ratis wrote:

 Hello everyone,

 I would like to announce you a new try to 'revive' the Bugday event.
 As most of the open source projects have their own bugday, I thought
 it would be great to have this event back.  For those who don't know,
 its a monthly 24h event that takes place in #gentoo-bugs. Its goal is
 to close as many bugs as possible . You don't have to be a Gentoo
 expert to participate. Those days are a great way to start joining the
 Gentoo community, improving Bugzilla's and Wiki's quality and looking
 for a mentor to begin the recruitment process. The upcoming bugday
 event is this Saturday and I hope this event will continue in the next
 months. I have created a wiki page for the event[1] and I added some
 guidelines. I have also created a related blog post about the
 event[2].

 I have listed some maintainer-wanted and maintainer-need bugs and
 Bugzilla admins also re-enabled the bugday flag. I would like to ask
 the Gentoo project teams to start using this flag to their bugs that
 think that are good to start and enable the flag at them. It would be
 great to a have a really big list with 'good to start' bugs.

 It's the first time after a long time that this event will take place,
 so I am looking forward to your participation both users and
 developers and your feedback.

 [1] http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Bugday
 [2] http://blog.dastergon.gr/gentoo-bugday/

 Thanks,
 Pavlos



 Hi,

 Thanks for your work, it will be great to see Bugday happening again.

 What about the old bugday webpage[1]? It seems a bit broken at the moment,
 but may be useful to get running again.
 Is the code available somewhere? Who has access to the login in the footer?

antarus@flycatcher /var/svnroot/bugday $ grep svnbugday /etc/group
svnbugday:x:4005:gurligebis

It is there, but only gurligebis has r/w. We should migrate it to
git.o.g.o if possible (all the secrets should be in a separate
infra-owned repo, basically.)

I have no idea who has access to login.


 Best regards,
 Michael

 [1] http://bugday.gentoo.org/