[Typo3-bugs] Some ideas for bug fixing guidelines

[Michael Stucki]

Hello Michael,

> 1. Make better use of the status field. Many bugs are still marked as
> new although they are old. As soon as someone has looked at the bug and
> not immediately closed it, it should be feedback/acknowledged.

Right, I'll try to do that as good as possible.

> 2. In this vein: Bugs should not be assigned unless they are to be
> closed in a reasonable time frame, maybe 2 weeks. The point is that I
> would not mess with other peoples bugs but there are dozens of bugs that
> are assigned and not fixed for months. I do not want to reproach the
> devs for not fixing stuff, but rather: If you are unable to fix the
> thing real soon, please downgrade the status so we can look for other
> people to do it.

Well, actually I assigned some bugs to myself which I am willing to fix but
not now. So I just used that function as a reminder for me... :-)

(Are there any other ways for this in Mantis? I would love to see a feature
for selecting all bugs I have monitored...)

> So dear devs, please look at 'your' bugs and release them if you are
> unable/unwilling to fix them.

Will do.

> 3. Real discussions are better held here because mail is nicer than web
> stuff, for me at least. Long lists of bug notes are annoying.

I sometimes used the dev list for that. But I agree with you that
discussions are better on a mailing list (not specifically this one here).

> 4. A question: Should diffs be made against the current stable version
> of TYPO3 or CVS? I prefer the stable version.

>From a users view, you are right. It's probably easier for us to port the
patch to the next version as for a user in the other way.

But do they really need those patches?

> That's it for now, please add stuff here, so we have a bug policy real
> soon.

Should we set up a wiki page for this?

However it should not be writable for anyone I guess. Robert, how is timtaw
doing? I remember you saying that it's ready in two weeks (after
Kitzbühel...) ;-))

Cheers, michael
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