Owen Taylor wrote:
In the ideal world, we'd never ship a release with any ShouldFix bugs still open. We certainly don't always achieve that. Perhaps for FC2, some external people can help nag on ShouldFix bugs. It really does help a lot if somebody posts a list of
FYI, http://www.fedora.us/wiki/FedoraTriage Fedora Triage is experimenting with a couple of easy to use ways for community members to deal with organizing bugzilla bugs so developers can build reasonable queries.
First there are public tracker bugs like https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/showdependencytree.cgi?id=109188 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=109188
Second trying to use a common syntax comment string 'triage->reason' to annotate bugs with searchable queries http://www.fedora.us/wiki/TriageComment
example: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=109827
Some pre-built queries against these strings are at: http://www.fedora.us/wiki/CannedQueries
These of course are very simple experiments on how to use the existing bugzilla system so community knowledge can be a resource to help developers quickly find lists of bugs. My personal wishlist is to have very granular editting permissions so different grades 'trusted' community members can get different levels of editting access so that 'trusted' community members can do some of the more day-to-day QA tasks. Also on my wishlist is a new triage oriented whiteboard space that can hold the triage->reason strings. Putting them in comments, is not the best solution. I'd rather have a whiteboard like space for community triage comments that can be re-written and can be controlled under a fine-grained editting permissions...to prevent abuse and to make it easy for honest triage comment mistakes to be erased.
I would appreciate feedback from package maintainers about how much value they are getting out of the public trackers and the triage comment strings, as query tools.
-jef"sure..doing this sort of triage without bugzilla editting rights is like sword fighting with both hands tied behind your back...but having sharp pointy teeth helps a little"spaleta