Re: bugzilla situation

2012-02-26 Thread Kevin Krammer
On Friday, 2012-02-24, Martin Gräßlin wrote: On Friday 24 February 2012 19:32:10 Andras Mantia wrote: On Friday, February 24, 2012 06:10:23 PM Thomas Lübking wrote: Am 24.02.2012, 09:44 Uhr, schrieb Andras Mantia aman...@kde.org: If you can moderate it, it means you have time and

Re: bugzilla situation

2012-02-25 Thread dE .
On 02/22/12 20:41, David Faure wrote: On Wednesday 22 February 2012 16:15:45 Giorgos Tsiapaliwkas wrote: Hello, Toma's blog posthttp://www.omat.nl/2012/02/18/sysadmin-needs-help-with-bugzilla-instal lation/ inspired me to send you this mail. Right now our bugzilla is a mess. We have so many

Re: bugzilla situation

2012-02-25 Thread Parker Coates
On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 03:06, dE . wrote: I tend to think closing duplicate bugs and checking wish list issues can be done by a non-developer contributers. In which case there should be an option by which a particular user can be CCd to for a specific program(s). There should be an entry

Re: Re: bugzilla situation

2012-02-24 Thread Ben Cooksley
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 8:06 PM, Martin Gräßlin mgraess...@kde.org wrote: On Friday 24 February 2012 02:15:54 Sven Burmeister wrote: Am Mittwoch, 22. Februar 2012, 19:00:26 schrieb Martin Gräßlin: Personally I'm not sure whether the MeeGo bugzilla can be compared to the KDE one (technical

Re: Re: Re: bugzilla situation

2012-02-24 Thread Martin Gräßlin
On Friday 24 February 2012 21:03:42 Ben Cooksley wrote: On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 8:06 PM, Martin Gräßlin mgraess...@kde.org wrote: On Friday 24 February 2012 02:15:54 Sven Burmeister wrote: Am Mittwoch, 22. Februar 2012, 19:00:26 schrieb Martin Gräßlin: Personally I'm not sure whether the

Re: bugzilla situation

2012-02-24 Thread Thorsten Zachmann
On Friday, February 24, 2012 08:06:41 Martin Gräßlin wrote: Consider that we have to ask again and again for all those things to find out in the end that it is a known issue with $foo driver in combination with $bar feature. All these things could so easily be handled by a first level

Re: bugzilla situation

2012-02-24 Thread Andras Mantia
On Thursday, February 23, 2012 04:57:16 PM David Edmundson wrote: First of all, the bugzilla is supposed to be a communication tool between the user and the developer. Or is it? If I understand Martin correctly, he wants bugzilla to be a list of things broken in my app, not a

Re: bugzilla situation

2012-02-24 Thread Boudewijn Rempt
On Fri, 24 Feb 2012, Alex Merry wrote: On 24/02/12 09:22, Thorsten Zachmann wrote: Why not have a state for bugs that you know are worth fixing? Then the developers can concentrate on those and Other people can do the initial cleaning to get the bugs to a state they can be closed or the proper

Re: bugzilla situation

2012-02-24 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On Friday 24 February 2012, Martin Gräßlin wrote: On Friday 24 February 2012 21:03:42 Ben Cooksley wrote: On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 8:06 PM, Martin Gräßlin mgraess...@kde.org ... Consider that we have to ask again and again for all those things to find out in the end that it is a known

Re: bugzilla situation

2012-02-24 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On Friday 24 February 2012, Ben Cooksley wrote: On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Kevin Ottens er...@kde.org wrote: On Thursday 23 February 2012 17:39:12 Trever Fischer wrote: Random, possibly entirely unhelpful suggestion: Perhaps using our redmine install of projects.kde.org for this kind

Re: bugzilla situation

2012-02-24 Thread Thomas Lübking
Am 24.02.2012, 09:44 Uhr, schrieb Andras Mantia aman...@kde.org: Bugzilla is not a to-do list, it is for what else... a bug (and wishlist) reporting tool for users. The problem here that this is noise prone and the low entropy isn't helping anyone (and i'm not talking about users should not

Re: bugzilla situation

2012-02-24 Thread Andras Mantia
On Friday, February 24, 2012 06:10:23 PM Thomas Lübking wrote: Am 24.02.2012, 09:44 Uhr, schrieb Andras Mantia aman...@kde.org: Bugzilla is not a to-do list, it is for what else... a bug (and wishlist) reporting tool for users. The problem here that this is noise prone and the low entropy

Re: Re: bugzilla situation

2012-02-24 Thread Martin Gräßlin
On Friday 24 February 2012 19:32:10 Andras Mantia wrote: On Friday, February 24, 2012 06:10:23 PM Thomas Lübking wrote: Am 24.02.2012, 09:44 Uhr, schrieb Andras Mantia aman...@kde.org: Bugzilla is not a to-do list, it is for what else... a bug (and wishlist) reporting tool for users.

Re: bugzilla situation

2012-02-24 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2012-02-22, David Faure fa...@kde.org wrote: up with was the few cases where bugs turned into actual political flamewars; his answer was obviously give rights to everyone, and remove rights when someone abuses them. This is also what we do for SVN/GIT, so why don't we do this for

Re: bugzilla situation

2012-02-24 Thread Sven Burmeister
Am Freitag, 24. Februar 2012, 08:06:41 schrieb Martin Gräßlin: My claim is that most of that user support only ends-up in bugzilla because people did not get help somewhere else, e.g. because only developers are familiar enough with the code to understand the issue. No, that is clearly

Re: bugzilla situation

2012-02-24 Thread Sven Burmeister
Am Freitag, 24. Februar 2012, 18:51:11 schrieb Martin Gräßlin: On Friday 24 February 2012 19:32:10 Andras Mantia wrote: On Friday, February 24, 2012 06:10:23 PM Thomas Lübking wrote: Am 24.02.2012, 09:44 Uhr, schrieb Andras Mantia aman...@kde.org: Bugzilla is not a to-do list, it is for

Re: Re: bugzilla situation

2012-02-24 Thread Martin Gräßlin
On Friday 24 February 2012 19:11:12 Sven Burmeister wrote: Am Freitag, 24. Februar 2012, 08:06:41 schrieb Martin Gräßlin: My claim is that most of that user support only ends-up in bugzilla because people did not get help somewhere else, e.g. because only developers are familiar enough

Re: bugzilla situation

2012-02-24 Thread Andras Mantia
On Friday, February 24, 2012 06:51:11 PM Martin Gräßlin wrote: - first level support issues are not opened on the bug tracker but in a user support management system - e.g. forums.kde.org. Only if the supporters figure out that there is a real bug, they will open a bug report. This is high

Re: Re: bugzilla situation

2012-02-24 Thread Martin Gräßlin
On Friday 24 February 2012 19:27:09 Sven Burmeister wrote: yes, of course, we have to help the users. But they need to get a tool for user support, not a tool for developer communication. We need a first-level- support to help the users. Developers are the third-level-support. I doubt

Re: bugzilla situation

2012-02-24 Thread David Edmundson
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 8:44 AM, Andras Mantia aman...@kde.org wrote: On Thursday, February 23, 2012 04:57:16 PM David Edmundson wrote: First of all, the bugzilla is supposed to be a communication tool between the user and the developer. Or is it? If I understand Martin correctly, he wants

Re: bugzilla situation

2012-02-24 Thread Andras Mantia
On Friday, February 24, 2012 07:28:33 PM Martin Gräßlin wrote: User asking on distro/KDE mailinglist/forum/IRC because xyz does not work. 1. he gets an answer 1.1 known bug 1.2 me too - the user might open a bug report 1.3 it works like this… 2. he does not get an answer

Re: Re: bugzilla situation

2012-02-24 Thread Martin Gräßlin
On Friday 24 February 2012 20:31:46 Andras Mantia wrote: On Friday, February 24, 2012 06:51:11 PM Martin Gräßlin wrote: - first level support issues are not opened on the bug tracker but in a user support management system - e.g. forums.kde.org. Only if the supporters figure out that

Re: bugzilla situation

2012-02-23 Thread Trever Fischer
On Thursday, February 23, 2012 11:57:16 AM David Edmundson wrote: First of all, the bugzilla is supposed to be a communication tool between the user and the developer. Or is it? If I understand Martin correctly, he wants bugzilla to be a list of things broken in my app, not a

Re: bugzilla situation

2012-02-23 Thread Ben Cooksley
On Fri, Feb 24, 2012 at 11:41 AM, Kevin Ottens er...@kde.org wrote: On Thursday 23 February 2012 17:39:12 Trever Fischer wrote: Random, possibly entirely unhelpful suggestion: Perhaps using our redmine install of projects.kde.org for this kind of task tracking? I'd love to see p.k.o be used as

Re: bugzilla situation

2012-02-23 Thread Sven Burmeister
Am Mittwoch, 22. Februar 2012, 12:38:38 schrieb Antonis Tsiapaliokas: For e.x., someone is a core developer, someone is on release team or someone else is a sysadmin and some others are taking critical decisions about the feature of KDE. I don't think that neither of them was there where he

Re: bugzilla situation

2012-02-23 Thread Sven Burmeister
Am Mittwoch, 22. Februar 2012, 19:00:26 schrieb Martin Gräßlin: Personally I'm not sure whether the MeeGo bugzilla can be compared to the KDE one (technical oriented vs. user oriented). From my personal experience (KWin bugtracker is felt 90 % a user support forum) My claim is that most of

Re: Re: bugzilla situation

2012-02-23 Thread Martin Gräßlin
On Friday 24 February 2012 02:15:54 Sven Burmeister wrote: Am Mittwoch, 22. Februar 2012, 19:00:26 schrieb Martin Gräßlin: Personally I'm not sure whether the MeeGo bugzilla can be compared to the KDE one (technical oriented vs. user oriented). From my personal experience (KWin bugtracker

bugzilla situation

2012-02-22 Thread Giorgos Tsiapaliwkas
Hello, Toma's blog posthttp://www.omat.nl/2012/02/18/sysadmin-needs-help-with-bugzilla-installation/ inspired me to send you this mail. Right now our bugzilla is a mess. We have so many bug entries which we can't handle. Everyone is able to open a new bug, but only a few people are able to

Re: bugzilla situation

2012-02-22 Thread David Faure
On Wednesday 22 February 2012 16:15:45 Giorgos Tsiapaliwkas wrote: Hello, Toma's blog posthttp://www.omat.nl/2012/02/18/sysadmin-needs-help-with-bugzilla-instal lation/ inspired me to send you this mail. Right now our bugzilla is a mess. We have so many bug entries which we can't

Re: bugzilla situation

2012-02-22 Thread Stefan Majewsky
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 4:11 PM, David Faure fa...@kde.org wrote: give rights to everyone, and remove rights when someone abuses them. This is also what we do for SVN/GIT, so why don't we do this for bugzilla? Presuming people are innocent upfront, rather than guilty What we do for SVN/Git is

Re: bugzilla situation

2012-02-22 Thread David Faure
On Wednesday 22 February 2012 11:57:25 Parker Coates wrote: On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 10:23, Stefan Majewsky wrote: On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 4:11 PM, David Faure wrote: give rights to everyone, and remove rights when someone abuses them. This is also what we do for SVN/GIT, so why don't we

Re: bugzilla situation

2012-02-22 Thread Laszlo Papp
The suggestion remains: to allow everyone to edit and close bugs, as is apparently the case in some other bug trackers. +1. Worked fine on the MeeGo bugzilla for instance, I previously used. Best Regards, Laszlo Papp

Re: bugzilla situation

2012-02-22 Thread Martin Gräßlin
Am 22.02.2012 18:13, schrieb Laszlo Papp: The suggestion remains: to allow everyone to edit and close bugs, as is apparently the case in some other bug trackers. +1. Worked fine on the MeeGo bugzilla for instance, I previously used. Personally I'm not sure whether the MeeGo bugzilla can be

Re: bugzilla situation

2012-02-22 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Wednesday, February 22, 2012 07:00:26 PM Martin Gräßlin wrote: Am 22.02.2012 18:13, schrieb Laszlo Papp: The suggestion remains: to allow everyone to edit and close bugs, as is apparently the case in some other bug trackers. +1. Worked fine on the MeeGo bugzilla for instance, I

Re: bugzilla situation

2012-02-22 Thread Thomas Lübking
Am 22.02.2012, 16:11 Uhr, schrieb David Faure fa...@kde.org: In case that a user finds a true bug, he can go to the project's irc and to ask from someone to open the new bug. Doesn't sound very open [Disclaimer: Describing a custom, proprietary and vastly expensive system ;-) No

Re: bugzilla situation

2012-02-22 Thread Antonis Tsiapaliokas
On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 7:11 AM, David Faure fa...@kde.org wrote: Doesn't sound very open -- David Faure, fa...@kde.org, http://www.davidfaure.fr Sponsored by Nokia to work on KDE, incl. KDE Frameworks 5 First of all, the bugzilla is supposed to be a communication tool between the user

Re: bugzilla situation

2012-02-22 Thread Andras Mantia
On Wednesday, February 22, 2012 04:11:57 PM David Faure wrote: He asked me why we don't do this, and the only reply I could come up with was the few cases where bugs turned into actual political flamewars; his answer was obviously give rights to everyone, and remove rights when someone