[kde-announce] Announcing KDE 3.2

[Aaron J. Seigo]

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On February 05, 2004 06:34, Don Sanders wrote:
> As a contributor I highly value the freedom to decide what I work on,
> this freedom has great value to me.
>
> I like the bug voting system and help use it to decide the priority of
> improvements I want to work on. If the Quality Managers are
> interested in affecting my prioritization of wishes I'm interested in
> working on then they can contact me for my commercial KDE development
> rates.

a QM would not prioritize your work for you, they would help sort through the 
reports and separate the quality reports from the rediculous, deal with vague 
reports, requests that have been made more than once, requests that are 
already handled but not marked as such, requests that are invalid, etc... 
they should also be able to present "Top 10 Lists": Top 10 Most Wanted, Top 
10 Easy To Do, Top 10 Long Term Requests, etc. they should also be able to 
sort them out into categories, which for kmail might look something like: 
main GUI, composing, network and accounts, filters, interop ... by doing the 
sorting, sifting and ensuring high quality reports QM's can ensure that it 
becomes MUCH quicker/easier to accurately determine for one's self what to 
work on. 

most of bugs.kde.org is not well maintained, groomed or managed. probably 
because most of us have "better things" to do that muck around in a web 
interface for several hours at a stretch, while our users lean on it all day 
long. therefore the need for bug triage.

based on previous experience doing some cleanups in the past for kicker and 
kcontrol, i'd guess that we could reduce the # of reports by 10-25% simply by 
removing dead reports (too old, no new responses), duplicates and invalid 
requests. that's 800-1600 BRs, and even just that would make it a lot easier 
to deal with the remaining reports. 

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Aaron J. Seigo
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