Chris Dent <cdent...@anticdent.org> wrote on 03/15/2016 02:37:45 PM: > From: Chris Dent <cdent...@anticdent.org> > To: "OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions)" > <openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org> > Date: 03/15/2016 02:38 PM > Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] [nova] Wishlist bugs == (trivial) blueprint? > > On Tue, 15 Mar 2016, Markus Zoeller wrote: > > > Long story short, I'm in favor of abandoning the use of "wishlist" > > as an importance in bug reports to track requests for enhancements. > > While I'm very much in favor of limiting the amount of time issues > (of any sort) linger in launchpad[1] I worry that if we stop making > "wishlist" available as an option then people who are not well > informed about the complex system for achieving features in Nova > will have no medium to get their ideas into the system. We want > users to sometime be able to walk up, drop an idea and move on without > having to be responsible for actually doing that work. If we insist > that such ideas must go through the blueprint process then most > ideas will be left unstated. > > What I think we need to do instead is fix this problem: > > > * we don't have a process to transform wishlist bugs to blueprints > > such that we do have a process of some kind where a wishlist idea > either gets an owner who starts the blueprint process (because it is > just that cool) or dies from lack of attention. > > It's clear, though, that we already have a huge debt in bug/issue > management so adding yet another task is hard to contemplate. > > I think we can address some of that by more quickly expiring bugs > that have had no recent activity or attention, on the assumption > that: > > * They will come back up again if they are good ideas or real bugs. > * Lack of attention is a truthy signal of either lack of resources or lack > of importance. > > What needs to happen is that fewer things which are not actionable > or nobody is interested in show up when traversing the bugs looking > for something to work on.
Regarding the expiration of bug reports, I have [1] in the pipeline which had a proposal there at the end. It's something I'd like to discuss at the summit. Right now I'm focusing on the "wishlist" ones. > [...] References: [1] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/266453/2/doc/source/bug_process.rst Regards, Markus Zoeller (markus_z) __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev
