Hi Martin,<div><br></div><div>Good idea I think (although i won't be there). As an intermittent bug hunter (sorry, my time is unpredictable so I cannot commit myself too often), and watching the process a bit for half a year now, I think there is more than enough willingness to tame the beast. Clarity in how the developers - and not just some of the developers! - want me to be is crucial here. Stronger: I get a lot more motivated to ignore my real job and work on this if I can see that the efforts pay off - not just in a low bug number, but simply in a better workflow for the developers, and better code.</div>
<div><br></div><div>My personal opinion, which counts for nothing: BKO can only work with less than 50 bugs or so per component. So be rigurous. BKO can only work as a developers tool if the developers want to use it, if they can have developers discussions within the report (like KWin does, or telepathy). The difference is that Plasma got almost 1400 bug reports in the past half year more than 10% of all of KDE, not even counting the bugs that ended up being redirected to nepomuk, kwin, solid, etc. Currently there are ~800 bugs open, my guess would be about 500 real bugs in a current version. That makes a bug overturn time of only 2 or 3 months.</div>
<div>These are impressive numbers, and they show that Plasma is doing OK in beating the bugs, even though plasma may not yet be doing OK in beating BKO. So should we really keep minor bugs that will never be fixed unless as colleteral damage open? Crashes of over a year old, without any duplicate since? I am not saying that these are no bugs, just that they are not helpful reports (anymore), and thus pollute the database. For a highly visible project like plasma, the amount of eyeballs is so high that an accidentally closed bug will be reported again. Currently, this is working against us, but we could make it work a bit more in our favor if we want to. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div>Thijs</div>