|
On 08/22/2014 01:20 PM, Pranith Kumar
Karampuri wrote:
On 08/22/2014 11:46 AM, Joe Julian
wrote:
adding the "correct" gluster-devel to this.
On 8/21/2014 10:55 PM, Joe Julian
wrote:
There have been times that I, as a user and a front-line
supporter, have marked a bug with the urgency that I think it
deserves - based on my own knowledge as well as feedback from
other users - only to have that urgency lowered to normal
because a developer who doesn't experience the urgency we do
as users, deemed it so.
Actually developers/assignees are not allowed to change severity,
never (Something that I learnt an year back. May be some
developers don't even know about it :-( ). Only priority is
something that can be lowered by the assignee. In my experience
this happens for severe bugs as well when the steps to re-create
the bug are not there or logs are not enough to find the root
cause etc.
Granted, there have also been many occasions where I didn't
set the urgency and my bug has been treated as if it was a
message from beyond the natural realm, for which I am truly
grateful.
Because the message _is_ from beyond natural realm ;-)
When I set the urgency, I try to consider more than just my
own current needs (though often they're truly quite urgent)
and look at potential for data loss, likelihood to encounter
the bug during normal operations, and feedback from other
users who have (usually) encountered the same bug. To have all
that forethought discarded is disheartening. For that reason,
I never set the urgency of any of my bugs any more.
I guess it would be better if you could raise it in devel mailing
list rather that not setting the urgency anymore :-(.
I would be willing to participate in triage, but I would
expect the same rigidness in changing an urgency as there is
in getting a change accepted. The developer who wants to
change the urgency should be expected to argue his case, not
simply change it.
+1
Pranith
It would good if we can update the triage wiki page [1] to have
right criteria/information about changing Severity and Priority. We
should treat the wiki page as our policy document.
http://www.gluster.org/community/documentation/index.php/Bug_triage
-Lala
On 8/21/2014 12:12 AM, Lalatendu
Mohanty wrote:
I hope the subject line have increased your curiosity to go
through the email :).
As a community, we are looking for contributors for
GlusterFS bug triage and hopefully this mail will give you
enough motivation for it.
As mentioned in the subject , bug triage will help to get
bugs fixed quicker, and features implemented sooner. If you
are not sure what bug triage means, please refer the gluster
wiki page [1] for bug triage.
Here are few questions and answers to help you if this is
something you should do.
- Q: Why we need to do bug triage?
- A: It reduces the time between reporting a bug and the
availability of a fix enormously.
- Because many developers have bad response times for
new bugs that are not pointed out to them. When well
triaged bugs get assigned to right developers, the
response time improves.
- Also developers work mainly on writing bug fixes and
implementing new features. Which in turn results in to
spending (too little) time on bug triaging.
- Q: I am just a GlusterFS user. Why bug triage will
help me?
- A: It will increase your understanding of GlusterFS,
current issues in GlusterFS, increase the interaction
between developers, community and triager. It will also
help filing better bugs too. The better the bug report,
the easier it is for a developer to write a fix.
- Q: Do you run GlusterFS in production?
- A: If your answer is yes, then bug triage is the right
platform for you to raise the importance of bugs. Bug
triage will also help you know existing issues in the
version of GlusterFS you are using, help you to know
existing issues in a new feature. So you will be in a
better position to decide if a feature is production
ready or not.
- Q: I want to contribute to GlusterFS. Will bug triage
help?
- A: Yes, it is an awesome place to start. You will get
to know about all the components in GlusterFS along with
issues in each of them. This knowledge will help you to
do better testing, development (bug fixing) etc. Also
you will interact with developers while triaging bugs.
You can use these interactions to ask more detailed
questions.
- Q: How can I triage bugs of GlusterFS?
- A: The wiki page [1] is the right place start. We are
starting up a bi-weekly/weekly triage meeting in
#gluster-meeting on Freenode. There would be another
mail with details about the meeting. You can join the
meeting and interact with other triagers.
Please don't hesitate to hit the reply button if you have
any question on this. We would love to hear your
suggestions/feed back :).
[1] http://www.gluster.org/community/documentation/index.php/Bug_triage
Thanks,
On behalf of the bug triage team
#gluster-dev, #gluster on Freenode
|
