[Gluster-devel] Update on setting and maintaining a trackable status for bugs

[Niels de Vos]

On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 09:47:10AM +0530, Humble Devassy Chirammal wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Refer # http://www.gluster.org/community/documentation/index.php/Bug_triage
> for more information on bug triaging process.

Thanks Humble! I've added a little more details on how the triaging is 
helping us, and included some links to predefined Bugzilla searches.  
There also is a paragraph about some of the Keywords now, specially the 
Triaged and EasyFix are two that we should pay attention to. Please read 
through it and make any corrections, additions when you can.

Cheers,
Niels

> 
> --Humble
> 
> 
> On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 1:40 AM, Niels de Vos <ndevos at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> >
> > we (sub-maintainers and component owners) will be trying to enforce
> > a more trackable status of the various bugs that we have and get
> > reported. In order to get everyone on one line, we will follow
> > a documented life-cycle for the bugs:
> > -
> > http://www.gluster.org/community/documentation/index.php/Bug_report_life_cycle
> >
> > The life-cycle will help developers and bug reporters understanding
> > where in the process a certain fix is. It makes it easier to find the
> > package versions that should solve the reported issues. With this, we
> > hope to get more verifications of fixes from the bug reporters and other
> > community users.
> >
> > With help from some scripts, I have been checking and correcting the
> > status of many bugs this evening. Now, most¹ bugs that have:
> >
> > 1. patches posted, should be in POST
> > 2. have all their patches merged, should be in MODIFIED
> > 3. have patches merged and a beta release contains those, ON_QA
> > 4. where all patches have been included in a final release, CLOSED
> >
> > So, don't be surprised to see many bug changes. This is intended and
> > should get us in a better position to really start a continued triaging
> > process for new bug reports. All details on how/when/who the triaging
> > will be done is not clear yet. Any volunteers that would like to be part
> > of the triaging and help with initial debugging and data gathering
> > should contact us (reply to this email on the list would work).
> >
> > Have a good weekend,
> > Niels
> >
> > ¹ Bug 1091833 is the last one I checked today, continuing an other time.
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