Re: [Development] Long-lived P1 issues

2020-11-03 Thread Bernhard Lindner
> ... resulting in users complaining about "high priority bugs get ignored". They're still complaining? Impressive. I have already passed the phase of resignation and just wonder why there is still a public bug tracker. -- Best Regards, Bernhard Lindner

Re: [Development] Long-lived P1 issues

2020-11-03 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
On Tue, Nov 03, 2020 at 10:34:29AM +, Alex Blasche wrote: After all the trinity of quality - time - resources must be adhered to. indeed, but you're still failing to draw the obvious conclusion. ;) "priority inflation" is a "natural" effect of an issue tracker drowning in unresolved issue

Re: [Development] Long-lived P1 issues

2020-11-03 Thread Eike Ziller
> On Nov 3, 2020, at 12:56, Eike Ziller wrote: > > > >> On Nov 3, 2020, at 11:34, Alex Blasche wrote: >> >> >> >>> -Original Message- >>> From: Development On Behalf Of >>> Jason McDonald >> >>> Looking at the huge list of P1s we have right now, I have absolutely no idea >>> wha

Re: [Development] Long-lived P1 issues

2020-11-03 Thread Shawn Rutledge
On 3 Nov 2020, at 12:56, Eike Ziller mailto:eike.zil...@qt.io>> wrote: It is something that we interpret into a combination of two separated fields in JIRA, with the meaning of Fix Version even having dual meaning depending on the “Resolution” state of a task Maybe we should have two fix ver

Re: [Development] Long-lived P1 issues

2020-11-03 Thread Eike Ziller
> On Nov 3, 2020, at 11:34, Alex Blasche wrote: > > > >> -Original Message- >> From: Development On Behalf Of >> Jason McDonald > >> Looking at the huge list of P1s we have right now, I have absolutely no idea >> what issues are genuinely blocking Qt 6.0 or if there are any that I c

Re: [Development] Long-lived P1 issues

2020-11-03 Thread Alex Blasche
> -Original Message- > From: Development On Behalf Of > Jason McDonald > Looking at the huge list of P1s we have right now, I have absolutely no idea > what issues are genuinely blocking Qt 6.0 or if there are any that I could > help out > with. I could spend literally weeks just readi

Re: [Development] Does anyone know why the Qt Bug Tracker has two "Unresolved" resolutions?

2020-11-03 Thread Jason McDonald
On Tue, 3 Nov 2020 at 20:11, Alex Blasche wrote: > Turns that there is a resolution overload in Jira. For any issue that was > not transitioned into the closed state, the system sets the resolution > field to "Unresolved". > > As soon as the closure happens, the resolution field is set to one of

Re: [Development] Does anyone know why the Qt Bug Tracker has two "Unresolved" resolutions?

2020-11-03 Thread Alex Blasche
Turns that there is a resolution overload in Jira. For any issue that was not transitioned into the closed state, the system sets the resolution field to "Unresolved". As soon as the closure happens, the resolution field is set to one of the predefined resolutions (e.g. Out of Scope, Duplicate

Re: [Development] Proposal: let's use Markdown for the dist/changes changelog

2020-11-03 Thread Tor Arne Vestbø
> On 3 Nov 2020, at 10:52, Richard Gustavsen wrote: > > Would it be better if we required all commits to have a ChangeLog entry, so > that no one > forgets? And if your commit shouldn't be in the log, you need to state that > explicitly, e.g: [NoChangeLog] No, that would just add noice to th

Re: [Development] Proposal: let's use Markdown for the dist/changes changelog

2020-11-03 Thread Richard Gustavsen
> But I didn’t like it when we generate a point-release changelog that says > there are only minor changes, when I know for a fact that some significant > bugs got fixed, and should be mentioned, even though the author forgot to > add a ChangeLog to the git commit. So a few years ago, before each

Re: [Development] Handling of Needs More Info issues in Jira

2020-11-03 Thread Alex Blasche
Turns out I switched it on in some projects but not all. I simply forgot about it. I will rectify this during the next days. Please note that this will trigger quite a few warnings about upcoming closure and it would give Jason a limited window to resolve. Therefore this has to be in stages. Li

Re: [Development] Long-lived P1 issues

2020-11-03 Thread Jason McDonald
On Tue, 3 Nov 2020 at 18:48, Eike Ziller wrote: > I disagree, especially if the fix version is a planning tool for the > individual developer. > The point is that you still at least need the rough categories of > > 1. must be handled _immediately_ (build breakage “P0”) > 2. release management dec

Re: [Development] Long-lived P1 issues

2020-11-03 Thread Jason McDonald
On Tue, 3 Nov 2020 at 18:39, Allan Sandfeld Jensen wrote: > On Dienstag, 3. November 2020 05:34:02 CET Jason McDonald wrote: > > If an issue is not important enough to get attention within a year, is it > > really P1? > > But how many of those are accepted? P1 is just set on the assumption the >

Re: [Development] Long-lived P1 issues

2020-11-03 Thread Eike Ziller
> On Nov 3, 2020, at 09:07, Ulf Hermann wrote: > >> Currently, there are 1175 open P1 issues in the QTBUG project. 583 of those >> issues had that priority set more than one year ago, 342 of those had their >> priority set more than two years ago, and 175 of those more than three years >> a

Re: [Development] Long-lived P1 issues

2020-11-03 Thread Giuseppe D'Angelo via Development
Il 03/11/20 05:34, Jason McDonald ha scritto: Currently, there are 1175 open P1 issues in the QTBUG project.  583 of those issues had that priority set more than one year ago, 342 of those had their priority set more than two years ago, and 175 of those more than three years ago. If an issue

Re: [Development] Long-lived P1 issues

2020-11-03 Thread Allan Sandfeld Jensen
On Dienstag, 3. November 2020 05:34:02 CET Jason McDonald wrote: > Some food for thought for module maintainers. > > Currently, there are 1175 open P1 issues in the QTBUG project. 583 of > those issues had that priority set more than one year ago, 342 of those had > their priority set more th

Re: [Development] Long-lived P1 issues

2020-11-03 Thread Shawn Rutledge
> On 3 Nov 2020, at 09:07, Ulf Hermann wrote: > >> Currently, there are 1175 open P1 issues in the QTBUG project. 583 of those >> issues had that priority set more than one year ago, 342 of those had their >> priority set more than two years ago, and 175 of those more than three years >> ago

Re: [Development] Long-lived P1 issues

2020-11-03 Thread Ulf Hermann
Currently, there are 1175 open P1 issues in the QTBUG project.  583 of those issues had that priority set more than one year ago, 342 of those had their priority set more than two years ago, and 175 of those more than three years ago. Let's be honest about this: The priority field is meaningle