Re: [QGIS-Developer] Issue priorization for bugfixing: go flag your favorite issues

2019-08-28 Thread Jonathan Moules
>  * thumbs up is cheap, and does not necessarily reflect real interest. I disagree. Yes a thumb-up is a "cheap", but the only people who find the issue in the first place to thumb it are those it affects. For this sort of thing Cheap is a virtue not a problem (I very much doubt there are any

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Issue priorization for bugfixing: go flag your favorite issues

2019-08-24 Thread Matthias Kuhn
Hi On 8/24/19 10:39 AM, Giovanni Manghi wrote: Thanks Matthias, thanks for this, as of course it *is* the eright thing to do, I only hope that next time this will be at least announced a little bit more in advance other than a Saturday morning, during August, at the start of the dev

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Issue priorization for bugfixing: go flag your favorite issues

2019-08-24 Thread Paolo Cavallini
Hi Matthias, On 24/08/19 10:06, Matthias Kuhn wrote: > I think this is mainly a point of communication. > > If explained well as an "indication" and not as a "guarantee" - online > and live while teaching - I think we'll get the message out. agreed, but I'm still unsure we'll be able to convey

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Issue priorization for bugfixing: go flag your favorite issues

2019-08-24 Thread Giovanni Manghi
Hi Nyall, Putting aside the rest of the conversation regarding regressions for > now, something I'd like to see clarified is what exactly classifies as > a regression? > in my mind, a regression is some functionality that worked and does not work anymore. It also does not have an acceptable

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Issue priorization for bugfixing: go flag your favorite issues

2019-08-24 Thread Nyall Dawson
On Sat, 24 Aug 2019 at 18:40, Giovanni Manghi wrote: > As someone else said is not true that a "bug is a bug": while certainly there > are issues that is not easy to classify if they impact a lot or not, the vast > majoity is easy to to say if they are important or not. Do not confound the >

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Issue priorization for bugfixing: go flag your favorite issues

2019-08-24 Thread Giovanni Manghi
> I would say we better leave this role to the developers > what role, to choose what to fix? if yes then... no, not completely at least. -- G -- ___ QGIS-Developer mailing list QGIS-Developer@lists.osgeo.org List info:

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Issue priorization for bugfixing: go flag your favorite issues

2019-08-24 Thread Giovanni Manghi
Thanks Matthias, thanks for this, as of course it *is* the eright thing to do, I only hope that next time this will be at least announced a little bit more in advance other than a Saturday morning, during August, at the start of the dev meeting. I did in the past several "priority lists" and it

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Issue priorization for bugfixing: go flag your favorite issues

2019-08-24 Thread Matthias Kuhn
Hi Paolo On 8/24/19 9:21 AM, Paolo Cavallini wrote: Hi Matthias, On 24/08/19 09:16, Matthias Kuhn wrote: Yesterday at a dinner with many well known friendly faces, a discussion started about the priorization of issues. One of the main problems when deciding which issues to tackle is, that a

Re: [QGIS-Developer] Issue priorization for bugfixing: go flag your favorite issues

2019-08-24 Thread Paolo Cavallini
Hi Matthias, On 24/08/19 09:16, Matthias Kuhn wrote: > Yesterday at a dinner with many well known friendly faces, a discussion > started about the priorization of issues. > > One of the main problems when deciding which issues to tackle is, that a > developer perspective often differs from the

[QGIS-Developer] Issue priorization for bugfixing: go flag your favorite issues

2019-08-24 Thread Matthias Kuhn
Yesterday at a dinner with many well known friendly faces, a discussion started about the priorization of issues. One of the main problems when deciding which issues to tackle is, that a developer perspective often differs from the one from the average user perspective. So we thought it