[maemo-developers] maemo Bug Jar #5

[From: Andre Klapper]

hi stephen,

Am Donnerstag, den 22.05.2008, 09:50 -0400 schrieb Stephen Gadsby:
> A Quick Look at maemo Bugzilla
> 2008.05.16 through 2008.05.21

your reports are great and helpful to get an overview, thanks a lot!

Karsten (irc nickname in #maemo on freenode: guenther) and me also have
"sending weekly maemo bugzilla status reports" on our todo-list,
probably on monday mornings (UTC timezone), but neither want to steal
nor duplicate your work. :-)

so let me try to elaborate our plan (feedback/cooperation of course
welcome):
besides what you already do, i also want to list the number (and
changes) of reports with the keywords "moreinfo", "crash" and "patch" to
find out about feedback rates and how successful our patch review is.
same with severity "blocker" (currently no reports) and "critical", and
priority "high" once we have triaged[1] most of the bugs in maemo
bugzilla correctly (currently underway).

later on, when we have more bugs with keyword "easyfix", i also want to
list those - i added this keyword today for reports that should be easy
to fix and hence are interesting for potential new contributors. any
[experienced] bug triagers feel encouraged to mark appropriate bugs as
'easyfix'!

> I'm continuing to adjust both the content and formatting of the Bug
> Jar. Prompted by Quim Gil, I'll be investigating how other Linux
> distributions handle collection and dissemination of similar data. I
> also welcome your feedback and suggestions. Thank you.

Karsten and me have been working on the GNOME Bugsquad for years, so
maybe I can share some insights here. GNOME Bugzilla is a heavily
patched Bugzilla installation and has (mostly thanks to Olav) several
nice (partially not-yet-upstream) extensions like the weekly summary at
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/reports/weekly-bug-summary.cgi or product
overview pages like
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/browse.cgi?product=gnome-games . these are
helpful tools to gather information and getting an overview of the
"sanity" of products. it will be non-trivial to port some of this stuff
to maemo bugzilla, but it could become a long-term plan to do so
(volunteers welcome ;-).

thanks,
andre

-- 
Andre Klapper (maemo.org bugmaster)