Re: Let's talk about Bugzilla

2014-08-04 Thread Allan Day
Emmanuele Bassi wrote: ... >> * Bulk close bugs from over two stable releases in the past. > > I assume you mean bugs filed on GNOME prior to 3.8 should be closed; I > think Debian still has 3.8 in testing, which, while fairly old, would > still fall under the "two stable releases in the past" ru

Re: Let's talk about Bugzilla

2014-08-04 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
hi Allan; On 4 August 2014 16:40, Allan Day wrote: > * Bulk close bugs from over two stable releases in the past. I assume you mean bugs filed on GNOME prior to 3.8 should be closed; I think Debian still has 3.8 in testing, which, while fairly old, would still fall under the "two stable releas

Re: Let's talk about Bugzilla

2014-08-04 Thread Emmanuele Bassi
NEEDINFO will remove the bug from the queries just like RESOLVED; the reporter is allowed to re-open RESOLVED bugs as well, but unlike that, we'll need the bug squad to go through all the NEEDINFO bugs in a couple of months to close them again — generating more bugmail in the process. personally,

Re: Let's talk about Bugzilla

2014-08-04 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Mon, 2014-08-04 at 16:40 +0100, Allan Day wrote: > * Bulk close bugs from over two stable releases in the past. We should mark these bugs NEEDINFO, asking if the bug still exists in the latest release, a month or two before they are closed, to avoid frustration when valid bug reports might othe

Re: Window animations in Gnome-Shell.

2014-08-04 Thread alex diavatis
Christian, there is a video [1] you can see the windows animations from Giovanni's patch. Notice that there aren't animations for maximize/unmaximize windows. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHtKkud6_is On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 6:11 PM, Allan Day wrote: > Christian Dysthe wrote: > ... > > I

Let's talk about Bugzilla

2014-08-04 Thread Allan Day
Hi all, This is the continuation of a couple of conversations I had with GNOME Shell developers during this year's GUADEC. I think we all agree that the current state of the gnome-shell Bugzilla isn't great. Despite the efforts of various people, we have a large number of unorganised bugs, and thi

Re: Window animations in Gnome-Shell.

2014-08-04 Thread Allan Day
Christian Dysthe wrote: ... > I know I'm going to be smacked for this but I'll take my chances. I > really like nice smooth animations on my desktop and with newer hardware > I have the power for excesses like that. ... > Please do not tell how stupid you think animations are. I know a lot of > pe