Brian Waldon wrote: > While I agree we need to make a better effort at triaging our bugs (some > projects more than others), I'm hesitant to fully open up bug triaging rights > to everyone. I doubt everyone who would start clicking those buttons have > enough information to make the right decisions. This is similar to why we > have *-core teams - while that is a bit of a higher risk situation, it's the > same concept.
I understand your concern. At that session the room was filled with people wanting to help with triaging, which obviously stacked the deck in favor of opening up the teams. Adding more people to the teams was also prompted by the need to give more people the ability to nominate a bug for backporting (which is also a bug supervisor right, while accepting a nomination is a project driver right). For Nova, I really think we need a lot more triagers if we want to touch all incoming bugs. I set up instructions [1] but I never managed to go beyond step 4. After I stopped doing routine triaging, the number of untriaged bugs [2] skyrocketed, despite the efforts of a small number (including you). The end result is an unusable list of open bugs, which in turn results in a quality drop (worst issues not addressed or addressed too late). [1] http://wiki.openstack.org/BugTriage [2] http://webnumbr.com/untouched-nova-bugs How do we fix that ? I agree that there is some risk with incompetent triagers, but I thought the benefit outweighed the risk. And with good documentation, the risk is limited. Alternative solutions include: a. Only open specific projects, to avoid introducing risk in already-well-triaged projects (but would result in confusion ?) b. Have someone (chief triager) review applications of proposed members (but who would do it ? and what would be the objective criteria for acceptation ?) c. Keep it as a PROJECT-core only duty, and create regular triaging activity for core members (preventing other devs from helping or nominating bugs for backports) Thoughts ? -- Thierry Carrez (ttx) Release Manager, OpenStack _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack Post to : openstack@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
