[Nepomuk] RFC: Use Bugzilla for coordinating development

[Sebastian Trüg]

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On 07/11/2012 12:13 AM, Vishesh Handa wrote:
> Hey everyone
>
> I've been thinking a lot about opening up Nepomuk development. Right now
> it's mainly just Sebastian and I working on their own private list of
> things. Quite often we do not even know what the other person is working on.
>
> This obviously has the effect of it being really hard for Nepomuk to get
> new developers. They cannot see what is being worked, and hence find it
> hard to contribute.
>
> We tried maintaining a list of who was doing what last summer [1]. But
> it was too much effort, and not quite detailed. That's probably cause we
> were using a wiki, and wikis are annoying for these kind of things.
>
> One possible solution that we start adding more of what we are doing on
> bugzilla, while that can be a little annoying. It would help a lot. The
> new bugzilla interface is quite nice, and the non guided mode for
> reporting bugs is quite clean [2].
>
> Additionally, from what I know Trever Fischer is currently developing a
> pretty amazing program for accessing "Bugzilla Tasks" from the terminal.
> I've seen a little bit of it during Akademy, and it seems fairly simple
> to use. He should release it pretty soon.
>
> The advantage of having everything in bugzilla is that we can group them
> according to their component [3], and have nice hierarchies by making
> certain tasks depend on other tasks. Also it would be the central place
> to discuss issues relating to that particular issue.
>
> It would also be nice if we could create a new mailing list -
> nepomuk-bugs to which all the Nepomuk bugs by default are assigned.
> (Quite similar to Telepathy). It makes listening in to bug reports a lot
> simpler, and when someone is working on a task they can assign that bug
> to themselves, and work on it. This way, we do not step on each others feet.
>
> What do you guys think?
>
> [1] http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Nepomuk/DevelopmentStatus#Old_stuff
> [2] https://bugs.kde.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=nepomuk
> [3] https://bugs.kde.org/component-report.cgi?product=nepomuk
>
>
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> Vishesh Handa
>
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