2018-03-07 13:15 GMT+01:00 Ivan Kelly <iv...@apache.org>: > Hi folks, > > We currently have about 150 open issues. Sometimes it feels like stuff > is added an never looked at again. We need to do some > cleanup/categorization, i.e. triage. > > In the past, a triage process which has worked for me is: > - Allocate an hour a week for triage. Any longer than this, it just > gets boring, and hard to carve out time to do it. > - Go through as many issues as possible in this hour. > - For each issue, categorize it as bug/improvement/idea etc > - Specify the priority. > - If high(ish) priority, specify a target release > - Identify the low hanging fruit > - Once a bug has been triaged, add a label "triage/<weeknumber>". This > will allow already triaged issues to be excluded from the current > triage. Eventually all issues will have a triage label. At this point, > the triage should be limited to those issues with the oldest triage > labels (which can be identified by the week). The eventual goal is to > have every issue looked at at least once a month or so, even if no > action is taken on it. > - Blocker issues should be looked at every triage session. > > If there's no objections, I'm volunteering to do this myself, starting > next week. If you start getting notifications for issues from > months/years ago, it's this. >
Sounds great Thank you very much ! Enrico > > Cheers, > Ivan >
