Heads up on Extra Mile initiative

[David Edmundson]

Forwarding the mail I sent to Aurélien because my stupid email client
doesn't realise this is a mailing list when I hit "reply".

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: David Edmundson <david at davidedmundson.co.uk>
Date: Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 4:30 PM
Subject: Re: Heads up on Extra Mile initiative
To: Aurélien Gâteau <agateau at kde.org>


On Fri, Jul 20, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Aurélien Gâteau <agateau at kde.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Following the Akademy BoF session, I have been working a bit on setting things
> up for the Extra Mile initiative.
>
> # Wiki page
>
> There is now a reference wiki page:
> http://community.kde.org/Getinvolved/Extra_Mile
>
> # Bugzilla setup
>
> I opted for using a tracker bug in bugzilla to track (sic) extra mile bugs.
> This is bug 303462, which is aliased as "extramile", so
> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=extramile points you to it.
>
> (I decided to use a tracker bug instead of a keyword because it is possible to
> subscribe to a tracker bug, and should this initiative stops in the future,
> the unused keyword won't be staying around)
>
> sysadmins are working on getting the bugzilla-mediawiki plugin installed,
> which will make it easy to list extramile bugs on the wiki page. Meanwhile,
> one can list them with this query:
>
> https://bugs.kde.org/buglist.cgi?f1=blocked&list_id=151096&o1=anywords&query_format=advanced&bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&v1=303462
>
> Do you think it would make sense to add it as a global saved search?

I would add it to the shared list, but don't make it appear in
everybody's footer unless they select to see it it themselves.
>
> Right now the assignee for the tracker bug is myself. Do you think it should
> be kde-testing@ or any another address?

Bugs on a mailing list (IMHO) destroy a ML. I don't want it to drown
out the other important discussions like this one. So I vote no.

Alternatives are:
 - Create a "fake" bugzilla user, and set that as the default asignee.
Then anyone who wants to follow these bugs goes to
https://bugs.kde.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email and adds this account to
their "user watching".

 - Create a new ML

 - Not have emails.

The people who need this bug list, aren't the people managing the
"Extra Mile Initiative" but the (hopefully) many people taking part
fixing them. So we need to have better alternative ways to list these
anyway. Such as the wiki or RSS.

>
> # Getting started
>
> So far there are very few bugs listed there, 2 from Gwenview, 4 from KDE
> Telepathy, which is understandable since the initiative hasn't been publicly
> announced.
>
> I will be on vacation from August 10 to 25, with little to none Internet
> access, so I want to wait until I am back to blog about it (and possibly
> unleash the flood). Until then, if you have bug reports which you consider
> candidates for extra mile bugs it would be great if you could mark them as
> such. This would help bootstraping the initiative before going fully public.
>
I would consider a dot article as well. Maybe after it gets going a
bit. Not so much when we're reporting extra mile bugs, but when we're
on the phase of encouraging (and working ourselves) on getting
everyone to fix them.

> Aurélien
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