Re: More bug fixing needed

[Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse dot com>]

On Thursday, August 30, 2012 14:28:21 Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Aug 2012, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> > One thing we might do is have a bug triage day and time. Say
> > Thursday afternoon we get together on IRC at a particular time and
> > do a group triage, talk about the bugs and work through N bugs in
> > 30 minutes.
> > 
> > I think this would help get us into the habit of doing triage.
> > 
> > Comments?
> 
> I guess triage might reduce the open bugs by 10% or so, by identifying
> bugs that have in fact been fixed (with or without reference to the
> bug number in the ChangeLog) but not closed as such, bugs where we

I expect that there are few already fixed bugs in bugzilla, I went 
through nearly all bugs and checked them - but still errors can happen.

> can conclude that the report is mistaken or the requested change not
> desirable, and bugs that lack sufficient information to confirm or
> reproduce them and where this was noted a while back without response
> from the submitter (whether or not explicitly in WAITING state). 

For these kind of bug reports, an IRC session would help a lot.

> There may also be some bugs with patches attached that can go in more
> or less as is (no copyright assignment issues, no need for extra
> testcases, etc.) and just need retesting and submitting to
> libc-alpha.  And triage can also help confirm bugs that may not have
> clear testcases or conclusions about whether they are valid.

Yes.
 
> But where a bug needs a patch to be written to fix it, that fixing
> (complete with testsuite additions and writing up the bug and the
> approach taken to fix it) is unlikely to be possible within 30
> minutes; I generally expect even pretty straightforward bugs to take
> longer than that to complete fixing.

Indeed - still coordination on how to tackle a bug might be a nice idea.

Andreas
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