Re: Re: Bug triage process needs help

2011-09-30 Thread Martin Gräßlin
On Friday 30 September 2011 22:19:40 Sven Burmeister wrote: > Am Freitag, 30. September 2011, 17:12:01 schrieb Martin Gräßlin: > > The bugtracker in it's current state does not help to increase the quality > > of the software. In fact the quality decreases as the developers have to > > spend time o

Re: Bug triage process needs help

2011-09-30 Thread Joshua Blocher
I think we are acting like it all has to be done manually which is simply not true. Why are we tackling bug triage as something that only a human can do? Computers are good a repetitive tasks. A little bit of intelligent use of technology would reduce the "burden" on all of our developers. KDE has

Re: Bug triage process needs help

2011-09-30 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Friday, September 30, 2011 09:10:22 PM Andras Mantia wrote: > I agree. There is a common complaint by developers, that they waste > their time on bug report reading/asnwering instead of coding. While this > seems reasonable, you have to understand that developing a software > product involve

Re: Bug triage process needs help

2011-09-30 Thread Steven Sroka
>On 30 September 2011 14:44, Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers wrote: > On Fri, 30 Sep 2011 15:59:45 +0200 > Myriam Schweingruber wrote: > >> I am answering here as an active bug triager. > > Sorry for the noise, bu you seem to be a "german language" native. What > exactly is "triage" ? I could not find it

Re: Bug triage process needs help

2011-09-30 Thread Sven Burmeister
Am Freitag, 30. September 2011, 17:12:01 schrieb Martin Gräßlin: > The bugtracker in it's current state does not help to increase the quality > of the software. In fact the quality decreases as the developers have to > spend time on managing garbage. Yes what we get is garbage. Most of the > report

Re: Bug triage process needs help

2011-09-30 Thread Thomas Baumgart
Hi Edgar, on Friday 30 September 2011 20:44:23 Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers wrote: > On Fri, 30 Sep 2011 15:59:45 +0200 > > Myriam Schweingruber wrote: > > I am answering here as an active bug triager. > > Sorry for the noise, bu you seem to be a "german language" native. Good guess. > What > exact

Re: Bug triage process needs help

2011-09-30 Thread todd rme
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 5:33 PM, Rui Maciel wrote: > On 09/30/2011 01:29 PM, todd rme wrote: >> >> I don't think any of those are good options, since all of them have >> the same result: spamming developers with huge amounts of useless >> information.  This would only make it far more difficult to

Re: kworldclock

2011-09-30 Thread Raphael Kubo da Costa
Henrik Kraft writes: > I liked very much the KDE game kwrdclock and saw that is is no longer > part of the debian distribution squeeze. As I tried to compile it from > source some errors occured: > - file about.moc could not be build > - also the file applet.moc could not be build > both files

Re: Bug triage process needs help

2011-09-30 Thread Dr.-Ing. Edgar Alwers
On Fri, 30 Sep 2011 15:59:45 +0200 Myriam Schweingruber wrote: > I am answering here as an active bug triager. Sorry for the noise, bu you seem to be a "german language" native. What exactly is "triage" ? I could not find it in my english dictionary ( is a little old ) Thanks for the explanatio

Re: Bug triage process needs help

2011-09-30 Thread Andras Mantia
On Friday, September 30, 2011 16:33:36 Rui Maciel wrote: > On 09/30/2011 01:29 PM, todd rme wrote: > > I don't think any of those are good options, since all of them have > > the same result: spamming developers with huge amounts of useless > > information. This would only make it far more difficu

Re: Bug triage process needs help

2011-09-30 Thread Rui Maciel
On 09/30/2011 01:29 PM, todd rme wrote: I don't think any of those are good options, since all of them have the same result: spamming developers with huge amounts of useless information. This would only make it far more difficult to manage bug reports. Just being patient seems like the only sol

kworldclock

2011-09-30 Thread Henrik Kraft
Dear Sirs, I liked very much the KDE game kwrdclock and saw that is is no longer part of the debian distribution squeeze. As I tried to compile it from source some errors occured: - file about.moc could not be build - also the file applet.moc could not be build both files where missing. kin

Re: Bug triage process needs help

2011-09-30 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Friday, September 30, 2011 14:26:22 Rui Maciel wrote: > After all, if not here then how would we tackle this issue? that's a great question, and it has a very simple answer that is a bit more difficult to implement than it might at first seem, though it is completely possible to accomplish:

Re: Re: Bug triage process needs help

2011-09-30 Thread Martin Gräßlin
On Friday 30 September 2011 09:44:54 Scott Kitterman wrote: > Having fewer users or fewer bugs would help, so it may be that making the > software either better or worse would reduce the bug triage backlog. Sorry to disagree, in KWin we see the opposite. The better we become the bigger the (usele

Re: Bug triage process needs help

2011-09-30 Thread Myriam Schweingruber
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 15:09, Ian Wadham wrote: > Resending.  Sorry, I used the wrong sending address before and got bounced. > >... > Surely there is some kind of database app behind bugzilla?  Would it not > be possible to produce reports and summaries that highlight and prioritise > bugs accor

Re: Bug triage process needs help

2011-09-30 Thread Myriam Schweingruber
Hi Sven, I am answering here as an active bug triager. Disclaimer: I am not a developer. On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 11:56, Sven Burmeister wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 29. September 2011, 13:25:49 schrieb Sebastian Kügler: ... > > So IMHO if you want good bug reports you have to start giving good feedba

Re: Bug triage process needs help

2011-09-30 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Friday, September 30, 2011 02:29:47 PM todd rme wrote: > On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 11:56 AM, Sven Burmeister > > wrote: > > Am Donnerstag, 29. September 2011, 13:25:49 schrieb Sebastian Kügler: > >> > It's frustrating for users submitting bug reports when an easily > >> > reproducible bug sits i

Re: KPluginSelector: Problems with the configCommitted() signal

2011-09-30 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Thursday, September 29, 2011 21:45:54 José Expósito wrote: > is save in disk... But I'm stucked because the configuration is > correctly saved on disk, but the signal is never emmited :S it seems that this signal is only emitted if there is a X-KDE-ParentComponents in the module's .desktop file

Re: Bug triage process needs help

2011-09-30 Thread Martin Bednár
Le Vendredi 30 de septembre 2011 11:56:55 Sven Burmeister a écrit : > Ok, so if a user reports a bug and gets no answer for weeks, what should he > do? Keep posting to the bug every few weeks, blog about it, private email to > the dev, ask on IRC (which would not be much different than a mailinglis

Re: Bug triage process needs help

2011-09-30 Thread Rui Maciel
On 09/30/2011 01:29 PM, todd rme wrote: I don't think any of those are good options, since all of them have the same result: spamming developers with huge amounts of useless information. This would only make it far more difficult to manage bug reports. Just being patient seems like the only sol

Re: Bug triage process needs help

2011-09-30 Thread Rui Maciel
On 09/29/2011 12:25 PM, Sebastian Kügler wrote: This posting of bugreports to mailinglists is often seen as unnecessary, and unfair since you're bringing attention to your pet bugs, which disadvantages others' pet bugs. As a user who filed a considerable number of bugs along the years, I have

Re: Bug triage process needs help

2011-09-30 Thread Ian Wadham
Resending. Sorry, I used the wrong sending address before and got bounced. On 30/09/2011, at 10:29 PM, todd rme wrote: > On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 11:56 AM, Sven Burmeister > wrote: >> Am Donnerstag, 29. September 2011, 13:25:49 schrieb Sebastian Kügler: It's frustrating for users submitting

Re: Bug triage process needs help

2011-09-30 Thread Reindl Harald
Am 30.09.2011 14:29, schrieb todd rme: > On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 11:56 AM, Sven Burmeister > wrote: >> Am Donnerstag, 29. September 2011, 13:25:49 schrieb Sebastian Kügler: It's frustrating for users submitting bug reports when an easily reproducible bug sits in the queue, without even

Re: Bug triage process needs help

2011-09-30 Thread todd rme
On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 11:56 AM, Sven Burmeister wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 29. September 2011, 13:25:49 schrieb Sebastian Kügler: >> > It's frustrating for users submitting bug reports when an easily >> > reproducible bug sits in the queue, without even a comment, for six >> >> > months.  For the r

Re: Bug triage process needs help

2011-09-30 Thread Anne Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/29/2011 11:48 AM, Sune Vuorela wrote: > Many bug reports are 'low quality', as in 'hard to figure out what > the submitter means'. There are really many bug reports in > general. This leads to a fact that finding the 'high quality' bug > reports

Re: Bug triage process needs help

2011-09-30 Thread Sven Burmeister
Am Donnerstag, 29. September 2011, 13:25:49 schrieb Sebastian Kügler: > > It's frustrating for users submitting bug reports when an easily > > reproducible bug sits in the queue, without even a comment, for six > > > months. For the record, I'm referring to this bug report here: > This posting of