[vtk-developers] VTK bug tracker state proposal

[David E DeMarle]

Done

The states are now:
backlog->active development->gerrit review->closed
and expired.
You should be able to move between them freely.



David E DeMarle
Kitware, Inc.
R&D Engineer
21 Corporate Drive
Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
Phone: 518-881-4909


On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 12:15 PM, Aashish Chaudhary <
aashish.chaudhary at kitware.com> wrote:

> +1 on getting rid of todo if has not happened already
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 4:51 PM, David E DeMarle <dave.demarle at kitware.com
> > wrote:
>
>>
>> On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 11:34 AM, Marcus D. Hanwell <
>> marcus.hanwell at kitware.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I was just looking at some of my bugs that got moved to backlog, and
>>> noticed the extreme amount of clicking necessary to go from backlog to
>>> closed now. I am not a fan, and would like to propose that the
>>> permissions be loosened up so that developers can move bugs from
>>> backlog to any other valid state (and potentially back again). We
>>> still maintain a complete record of the state changes associated with
>>> the bug, and when dealing with several bugs the number of clicks/page
>>> loads gets pretty high (two per state change).
>>>
>>>
>> Fixed in mantis now. (Doc isn't updated yet.)
>>
>>
>>> I think VTK would also benefit from a state of Review, Code Review or
>>> similar to denote that the bug has moved from active development to
>>> have a topic that is under review that should resolve the issue.
>>>
>>>
>> Not yet fixed but it will be.
>>
>>
>>> Marcus
>>> --
>>> Marcus D. Hanwell, Ph.D.
>>> Technical Leader, Kitware Inc.
>>> (518) 881-4937
>>> ____________________
>>
>>
>> I propose we also get rid of the "todo" state as well. In ParaView it is
>> meant as a way to uniquely assign jobs to people and to check how much work
>> each person has on their plate. I don't think we'll need that for VTK.
>>
>> So it will look like:
>>
>> backlog - active - review - closed
>> |
>> expired
>>
>> with grey links for the shortcuts that make it fully connected
>>
>>
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>
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> | Aashish Chaudhary
> | R&D Engineer
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