Bughunting Season!

[Sebastian Kügler]

Hi all,

With the feature freeze looming in less than 24 hours, it's time to shift or 
focus to quality improvements. We have a whole bunch of new awesomeness, and 
perhaps even more new ideas. For now, we'll have to take a step back and admit 
that we can't do everything at once, and concentrate on what we have created 
and put in place so far. We want to create this stable baseline which we can 
make work really well, and then, only then think about architectural and 
feature improvements again. For now, it's time to stabilize, fix regressions, 
fix bugs in order to make the stars align for a good first release of Plasma 
Next.

That means that we also need to shift our work to a slightly different 
process. I'd like to include in our Monday meetings a shortlist of "most 
important bugs to tackle", so that we don't get lost in the sheer number of 
them, not all bugs are equal, and some are definitely more annoying than 
others. In order to get a quick overview of bugs that affect us, you can use 
the following predefined search:
 https://bugs.kde.org/buglist.cgi?cmdtype=runnamed&namedcmd=plasma-shell&list_id=942085

In order to file new bugs, please place them under the plasma-shell product 
for now, so we can more easily keep track of them. We will need some more 
refined bugzilla strategy here, but for now, this at least helps to not lose 
overview on the critical issues. (Just to make sure: the bugs are assigned to 
my by default, that doesn't mean they'r taken: If you plan to work on a 
certain bug, check back quickly on IRC, leave a note in the bugreport, or make 
it clear otherwise, so we prevent duplicate work.)

We'll also open up for feedback from the community shortly, with the Alpha 
release that will be tagged on Thursday (and likely be released the Tuesday 
thereafter, stability permitting).

For now, though, arm yourself with coffee/tea/hot beverage of your choice/cold 
beverage of your choice/cookies/more than one of the above, some patience, and 
a relentless sense of quality and let's  


									Kill all the bugs! :-)


Cheers,
-- 
sebas

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