[Development] issue tracker rights

Thiago A. CorrĂȘa thiago.correa at gmail.com
Thu Feb 7 02:51:53 CET 2013


Hi,

On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 at 1:33 PM, Mitch Curtis <mitch.curtis at digia.com> wrote:
>> Bug triaging is a good way to get new contributors involved. So in my
>> opinion we should try to encourage everyone to help out with the cleanup of
>> our bug- tracker. Maybe we can even learn from KDE for example, where
>> regular bug triaging is working nicely.
>> (see for example http://techbase.kde.org/Contribute/Bugsquad )
>
> I think a lot of people are hesitant to contribute fixes because of all of the
> setup required to contribute, also (yeah, it's easy once you are familiar with
> it). This has probably been discussed before, but we would get way more fixes
> (or at least head starts for fixes, since most patches are not fit for immediate
> submission due to the absence of unit tests, etc.) if we could put a legal
> notice somewhere obvious saying that any attachments uploaded imply signing of
> the CLA?

Speaking for myself, I find it's hardest to figure what to do and at
the same time avoid work duplication. Sometimes you can identify a
task that is not in the tracker and almost by chance found in Gerrit.

Kind Regards,
    Thiago A. Correa



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