[Kde-pim] KDE PIM bug triage / developer sprint anyone?

[Stephan Diestelhorst]

On 19 October 2011 15:09, Milian Wolff <mail at milianw.de> wrote:
> Stephan Diestelhorst, 19.10.2011:
>> Hi,
>>   first of all, apologies if this is bad cross posting, but the issue
>> touches both hacking
>> and KDE PIM.
>>
>> Some background, skip possibly:
>> I am becoming increasingly frustrated with the way bugs pile up and
>> are not handled.
>> This has prompted me to actually look into the source and pinpoint the
>> offending change set (regression!), however, the fix was not straight
>> forward, so I am depending
>> on the author of that changeset. That has been sitting idle for
>> several weeks now.
>> Note: Not pointing fingers here, so please stay cool.
>>
>> Now the real part:
>> What I think has already been lamented is the lack of bug triaging and
>> leadership for
>> this project in particular. What I would like to propose in order to
>> help here is a bug
>> triaging and squashing sprint. It would at least allow me to have
>> synchronous communication with the people who know how things are supposed
>> to work but have not enough time to fix all the bugs. I believe this might
>> be
>> beneficial for the project as
>> a whole.
>>
>> So.. are there any plans for having a developer sprint soon? The ones on
>> https://sprints.kde.org/sprint do not really touch KDE PIM. If not,
>> would people be
>> interested to have one? If this becomes a yes, I would actually spare
>> up to one week
>> of vacation for this, and can offer to organise things locally, if
>> Dresden (Eastern
>> Germany) would fit as a location.
>>
>> Let's tackle this! Been to Thunderbird already and came back.
>
> You mean this one which you missed by a few days:
>
> http://community.kde.org/KDE_PIM/Meetings/KMail_Stabilization_Sprint_2011

Eek, missed that. Was that announced on kde-pim?

> Furthermore: I'm in a similar situation like you. I also fix bugs I notice in
> KDEPim and usually I don't have to wait for more than a few hours/days before
> I get a response. What channels do you use for discussion? I suggest using
> #kontact and/or #akonadi on FreeNode irc. Some pim people are usually around
> and very helpful. Same goes imo for the Pim mailing list...

Will start to hang out there, once I will work on these again.

Thanks for the pointers,
  Stephan
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