I completed migrating all Savannah bugs and feature requests over to Gna! while keeping crossreferences to preserve some semblance of history. (The history was for some reason not preserved during the migration, hence the xrefs.) All Savannah bugs and feature requests are now closed. Finally, un-Postponed all open issues and did a bit of tidying up.
Currently we have 83 open bugs and 162 open feature requests on the Gna! tracker. Looking at the extensive amount of effort that goes into the issue tracker, it is not clear this is productive use of time. Many of the bug reports are of low quality or are requests that belong in the Ideas forum. A few bugs are well written and help to pinpoint important issues that are typically fixed quite fast, but the sheer mass of stuff is drowning out the important issues, and the really critical stuff is discussed on IRC anyway. Moreover, keeping the issues organized and doing general maintenance is a major timesink. This involves scanning new reports and identifying and closing those that are invalid or duplicates, trying to reproduce bugs and asking for more information if not reproducible, fixing trivial but real bugs (eg. "typo in HttT", "missing image error", "scenario glitch in BoP"), keeping track of commits and marking the corresponding bugs as fixed, and marking as closed any bugs that are confirmed as fixed in the last release. With the project having become quite large, I just can't do this job effectively -- it involves trying to keep up with everything that happens on the project (and has also for me been tied into keeping the changelog up to date). I've been looking after the bug database for about six months, taking over from silene. However, my caution in keeping potentially useful information is failing to keep up with the new issues: we need someone who is more forceful in discarding low quality or ancient reports (by marking them as Wont Fix, Invalid or Duplicate, and closing them). This janitor has creaky bones and is passing the job to someone else. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
