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On 5/31/2010 20:01, Alexandru Băluț wrote:
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<div>I was wondering what is the best way to pick bugs, for a
developer aspiring to fix nonspecific Wine bugs. Normally, our hero
would look at the unassigned bugs to find one to work on. For some
bugs, a fix appeared with no notification that somebody is working on
them, for example:</div>
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href="http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22263">http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22263</a></div>
<div>- julliard@ unexpectedly announced that the bug should be fixed
by a specific patch.</div>
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Unexpectedly is very questionable word here cause it was a regression.<br>
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<div><a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22845">http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22845</a></div>
<div>- arethusa26@ unexpectedly mentioned that the bug should be
fixed by somebody else's specific patch.</div>
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Anyone could retest a make a note about that.<br>
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<div>Notice both are marked as FIXED, but none of them have been
assigned!</div>
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ASSIGNED state isn't used too often and there's nothing wrong with that.<br>
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<div>Let's say our hero picks a bug; should he ask on the bug page
whether anybody is already working on it, or ask on wine-devel, or
#wine-hackers?</div>
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Pick whatever you want, read through comments to figure out does
somebody work on it or not and write a fix.<br>
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<div>Or is it fine to just announce, in the bug page, that you'll
work on that bug? See, for example, this comment: <a
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href="http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22264#c9">http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=22264#c9</a></div>
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That's fine.<br>
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<div>Any suggestions about improving this process are welcome. I
think people will show up, wanting to help, and it would be nice to
help them find something to work on fast. ;)</div>
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There's nothing to improve. You could search by component or any way
you want.<br>
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<div>In the meanwhile, please assign the bugs, and spare others of
spending time on them. As a bonus, it would be nice to see accurate
numbers about how many bugs are on nobody's plate vs how many are on
somebody's plate. Data! :) At the moment, there are 15 assigned bugs
(ignored 11 assigned to wine-bugs@), vs <span class="Apple-style-span"
style="font-family: 'bitstream vera sans',verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">5580
unconfirmed/new/reopened bugs, for the Wine component.</span></div>
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Why do you need this? git log/blame shows all stats on every person.
It's a waste of time IMO to go with these ASSIGNED/VERIFIED.<br>
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P.S. also I think our bugzilla setup allows to much currently. Along
with practically unused states I mentioned already there's a difficulty
field that needs to be removed; it's nice to tweak CC list a bit too to
block reporter from being CCed.<br>
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<div>Thanks,</div>
<div>Alex</div>
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