>
> >
> > I want to call out my concern on technical debt we have accumulated so far.
> >
> > I did an analysis on JIRA bugs yesterday night PST on "Affects
> > Version = 4.1" and created since Dec 2012
> >
> > Total records : 429
> > Resolution Type (Invalid, Duplicate, Cannot reproduce etc.) : 87 (30
> > Blockers, 27 Critical, 27 Major, 4 Minor) Valid Defects : 429-87= 342
> > Fixed : 246 (60 Blockers, 70 Critical, 99 Majors) out of which 217
> > were fixed since Feb Unresolved : 96 (1 Blocker, 8 Critical, 64 Major)
> >
> > With this data it looks like we have fixed 2/3 of valid defects in little
> > over 2
> months and pretty much deferring around 1/3 rd of issues for future release.
> >
> > I also looked at overall backlog of bugs (Critical, Major and Blockers
> > only) as
> of 4/10/2013 - 10:0PM PST.
> >
> > 284 open (18 Blocker, 38 Critical, 228 Major) ; By Fix version
> > - Release 4.0.x and prior: 13
> > - 4.1: 70
> > - 4.2 : 97
> > - Future: 8
> > - No version: 107
> >
> > Looking at that we fixed 217 bugs in roughly 2 months during 4.1 cycle,
> fixing the backlog of bug will probably take us 2 months. Should we extend
> the 4.2 test cycle by 2 months [Original Schedule: 6/1 - 7/22, Extended
> Schedule: 6/1-9/22] to reduce the technical debt significantly? I would like
> to
> hear how community wants to address technical debt. Based on the input and
> consensus I will publish the agreed schedule next week.
> >
> >
>
> I don't think that an extension of time changes bug counts really. IMO, we
> need to pull together to have some bug-fix focused effort applied to the
> code-base. It's also another reason that I'm so big on making sure that
> automated tests come in with the new features. That doesn't address test
> scenarios that human testers can come up with, but if a developer spends the
> time to think about testing the basic feature and codifies that, we should at
> least avoid the "this actually doesn't work at all" types of bugs.
>
[Animesh>] Chip both additional time and big focused effort is needed to help
clear the backlog, you are right just one is not enough. Note that there is no
change to feature freeze date for 4.2. It is the defect fixing phase that I am
recommending extending. I agree to your comments on automated tests.
