Scott Ritchie wrote: > So, briefly: > > Over the past few months, users have added an average of between 12 and > 14 bugs every day. > > Since June 1st: > - 412 total bugs filed > - 87 bugs resolved invalid > - 227 bugs resolved fixed > - 133 bugs confirmed but not resolved (status new) > - 292 bugs created but unconfirmed > > Doing some subtraction that means we have 292 new untriaged bugs, but we > triaged or fixed (412-292-87-227-133) = 327 old bugs. > > So, we're swimming above water, which is good. But at this rate it'll > be years before we triage every bug. So, let's do something :) > > > Bug Jam this Monday! > > One idea that has been tried in the past is to hold regular bug days. > We've had a lot of success with them in Ubuntu as a way of organizing > non developer volunteers, especially when we focus the event on a > particular package. Today's bug day, for instance, tackled over a 100 > Synaptic bugs: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBugDay/20090716 > > I'd like to attempt this in Wine. We tried it once in the past, but no > one's organizing it now. Even if it's just me and 2 people testing a > handful of bugs in our favorite apps, it'll still sink a good number of > bugs and help drain the swamp. > > I'm picking Monday for bug day for a few reasons - it's both after a new > release and after the weekend, so users will have already had time to > play their games and see if they're still affected. If there's any sort > of success, hopefully this will become a regular event. > > > So, if you're into bug triage, please come and join me in #winehackers > this Monday. The purpose of triaging bugs is to ultimately get them > fixed, so if you're a developer and would rather work on patches then by > all means do that instead. > > I've created a wiki page for the event here: http://wiki.winehq.org/BugDay > When we're done I'll poke bugzilla for some stats and we can see how > much of a success the event was. > As a specific target, I'd like to work on: http://tinyurl.com/winebugdayjuly2009 These are all bugs tagged "download" that haven't been touched since January 2009. Since anyone can freely download and retest the application, they definitely seem like a low hanging fruit for easy triage. Thanks, Scott Ritchie
