10 days have passed since the start of the triage, and more than 40% of the bugs were handled. 71 bugs were confirmed to be already fixed in recent versions of openoffice.org and about 50 were confirmed to still exist.
During FOSDEM, I talked with Rene about the triage and it seems he intends version 2.4.0 for Lenny. So I decided not to ping users again until 2.4.0 (a non RC version) will enter Lenny, as don’t want to ping our Lenny users twice.
Dan Jacobson opened a thread about the new style of “mass triage” on -devel. Most of the points were already answered on my triage announcement post. But the thread on -devel have resulted in a few interesting points:
- Some of our largest (as openoffice.org) and important (as aptitude) packages are under maintained – referring to the amount of people working on the packages relatively to the amount of work which needs to done.
- While we have under maintained packages, people are still eager to add new packages instead of helping existing packages. Notice the amount of ITPs we have in the WNPP page.
On the users “frontend”, I found a lot of thankful people who gave possitive feedback on the process. Others were just responsive enough to get things forward and in some cases I could help with checking the bugs themselves instead of “just” pinging people about them.
Some users even took the opportunity, and upgraded to Lenny to test the bugs, and I still have a few bugs waiting for similar upgrades to be completed. It’s very nice to see users willing to invest time and effort to help DDs.
Tags: bug triage, motivation, openoffice
04/03/2008 at 10:23 am |
One idea: NM should give under-maintain packages/orphan-useful packages as starting up of process rather than adding more and more packages. What do you say?
04/03/2008 at 11:18 pm |
Sounds good.
Although some packages might be hard for beginners. But might be an interesting challenge.
05/03/2008 at 5:01 pm |
[...] velkém třídění bugů v Debian OpenOffice.org jsem už psal. Lior Kaplan nyní zveřejnil informace o dalším postupu celého procesu. Za deset dní se podařilo projít 40 % chyb. Celkem 71 [...]
25/04/2008 at 2:16 pm |
[...] users can test 2.4.0 on whatever (recent) Debian version the use. So it seems like a good time to revive the 2nd Debian Openoffice.org bug [...]