On June 20, 2011 07:35:26 AM Cyrille Berger Skott wrote: > Or maybe the first link is wrong, and it is not the tool that is the reason > of the drop...
My experience with Hugin so far confirms the "drop", so I do not think the first link is wrong... > Mark Shuttleworth is pursuing an agenda, and his blog is > all about pushing his agenda. ... and I am not interested in politicking. > the reallity is different and the inkscape team just cleaned up > their bug database. Which is something they could have done in their > previous bug reporting tool AFAIK their previous bug database was Sourceforge, like ours. I had tried for four years to bring up momentum there, and failed miserably no matter what technique I was throwing at it. I tested multiple alternatives and found that Launchpad was the best solution for us based on measured timings. I timed myself processing bugs. Only triaging. My peak speed on SF was 6/hours. On LP I was on average double as fast. LP's peak speed can't be compared - with a single email I can close / clean up dozens of reports. So I migrated Hugin's bug tracker to Launchpad, and we experienced the drop. But it seems to be a one-off and now the black hole is growing again. > , but in my experience, such cleaning happen > when there is a big momentum in the community such as a new release or a > new tool. I've worked actively to add momentum to Hugin. The results over the past few years: * speeded up the release cycles from barely one per year to three per year * cleared the new features integration backlog from 2-3 years to 1-2 months * attracted a following of builders/distributors for the different platforms * attracted new features contribution (estimate about 50% from GSoC and 50% from the user's community) The bug tracker is my only failure. I have been working at it continuously since almost the beginning as I believe it is a critical tool. I've tried plenty of things and while the current state is better than before, I am afraid its future is not so bright and I am trying to learn from the Inkscape experience. We have a fairly stable equilibrium on the development / distribution end despite some key people scaling back their contribution - i.e. our "succession plan" is far from perfect but not so bad after all. But I am still worried about the bug tracker becoming stale again over time, and thus useless. Yuv
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