On Saturday 25 May 2013 21:50:25 Jekyll Wu wrote: > On 2013年05月25日 20:59, Martin Graesslin wrote: > > My aims are: > > * get the number of bugs down without having humans looking at the reports > > > > * reduce the number of bugs coming in > > Now that plasma-desktop uses KDE_VERSION_STRING (since 4.10.3) instead > of the never changing stone 0.4 version, we can make use of bugzilla's > new feature of rejecting reports against disabled versions to reduce > received crash reports. Since the plasma product is already receiving > too many reports, I think it can apply a very strict policy with active > versions: only make the current stable and current development version > active. That means only making 4.10.3(current stable) and 4.10.60 > (current development) active. It's already using the same policy as KWin: latest two minor of latest two major. It works quite well for KWin, so that should be fine. > > Actually, since all plasma-desktops form KDE SC 4.10.2 and older use the > same 0.4 version, we can simply add and disable that 0.4 version. Once > that simple operation is done, plasma product won't receive any > plamsa-desktop crash report from KDE SC 4.10.2 and older. I generally > won't recommend such a strict or rude policy, but that is indeed one > option if really needed. Oh I didn't know about the 0.4 thing. Just created that version and disabled it. Let's see how this improves the situation ;-) > > > * filter out new bugs quicker (I have some ideas especially for crashes) > > would like to hear about that. Will do once I have done the first experiments with the idea. In my head it looks like a sane approach ;-) > > > * introduce more components > > Yes, one component for each plasmoid > > > * assign maintainers to the components > > assign each component to the fake plasma-<compont>-b...@kde.org user, > and add real maintainer and plasma-b...@kde.org into default CC list of > each component. We all know the horrible traffic brought by watching > plasma-b...@kde.org. Divide and conqueror. Seriously, I always wonder > how many plasma developers are watching plasma-b...@kde.org ? No blame, > I just think the horrible traffic would easily defeat most watchers. > > > Never make real users as the default assignee, because that only causes > trouble for maintain-ship handover, and make bug watching painful > (assume I'm the default assignee of kickoff component and super active > in the whole bugs.kde.org ,but some potential contributor is currently > only interested with kickoff bugs...) Very good suggestion! > > > * get the maintainers to care;-) > > My impression is many components/plasmoids just do not have dedicate > maintainer, or has some no longer active maintainer. Much more plasmoids have a maintainer than one would think. For example I think just this week we found a new maintainer for the battery plasmoid ;-)
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