Re: [Freemind-developer] Right direction toward 0.9.0
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From: Eric L. <fre...@zo...> - 2008-01-29 21:02:04
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Hi, Dimitry Polivaev wrote: >> Isn't it easier to use >> the "priority" field, as Eric has suggested some time ago? > > The name of the group "FreeMind 0.9.0" suggests that the all its bugs > are to be fixed before the release. That's why prefer using of another > group name to using priorities. Actually, the meaning was more: bug present in FreeMind 0.9.0 (or beta of it). It's a help for developers because a bug with group "FreeMind 0.8.0" means that the bug has been found in 0.8.0 but it might have disappeared in 0.9.0, so better concentrate on something else, until someone like me has checked if the bug is still in 0.9.0. > >> If you >> introduce an "out of scope" group, you will have to mark a lot of >> bugs reported by users. My argument against the "out of scope" group would be different: groups can't be removed, so having an out-of-scope for each version is a burden. Having a generic "out-of-scope" group is an issue because you loose the information in which version it appeared. Like Dan, I'd rather suggest to use the priority because that's what it's meant for :-) So my suggestion would be something like: - 5 - default value - someone needs to look into it and take a decision. - >5 - important bug - no release before it's fixed. - <5 - minor bug - release can happen without it being fixed. > > The already reported bugs can be easily marked using "Mass Update". > I always read and evaluate the new bug reports, and I could assign the > group after reading. > > But I do see a problem with bugs reported only on forum: even if I would > copy them into the bug tracker (which also costs me time), the submitter > do not expect them to be there and are not informed about the bug state. > > I have already written that from my point of view we should encourage > the user to use the bug tracker instead of the forum for submitting the > bug reports. In the other case such reports are very likely to be not > noticed or forgotten. Even if it's already decided, I second this one (I can't only disagree :-) ). Eric |