Hi, Motivated by the call for the bug days, here is an idea to manage the rapidly increasing number of "new" tickets on trac.
Many of the bugs on trac are - duplicates, - already fixed, which can be closed after adding a doctest or - has not been seen by a developer who can fix it since keeping up with all the new tickets on trac is very time consuming, and possibly the problem was filed in the wrong category. We might be able to overcome this with a "bug-wrangler" team, people who volunteer to - look at newly submitted tickets, notify the related developers, ask for examples and test cases if the report doesn't provide them, etc. - every once in a while, go through the open tickets and see if they were fixed in a recent release (perhaps this won't be such a problem once the duplicates are filtered properly) I know some people already spend time doing some of this, but it's impossible to fight with more than 2000 open tickets without an organized effort. Most linux distributions already use a similar approach. The issues are first assigned to the bug-wrangler team, where the email address points to a mailing list. Then someone takes the new ticket, and follows up until the right developer gives feedback. This would also be an easy way to consolidate duplicate tickets, even if they are filed in different components. The members of the bug-wrangler mailing list will be able to see the initial report for every ticket, so they might recall a similar problem reported a few days ago. Another advantage is that the members of this team don't need to be developers, or even know how to code. It is enough to be able to listen to user requests and use trac. This could also be a good starting point for people who want to get into Sage development, since it provides an opportunity to look through the library and become familiar with the internal structure of Sage. Comments? Cheers, Burcin -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
