The number of issues that we receive every months across all our repositories is large enough so that despite our best efforts to triage and close issues we fall behind as soon as we carve out time for some focussed, uninterrupted development time.
Priorities for the December 2022 Housekeeping
Bring our issue database back into great shape
Reduce the number of open bugs by fixing them
Note: Don't distract yourself with fixing issues if your part of the issue database is not yet in great shape. Clearly, we'll use common sense, i.e. we'll make easy fixes on the fly if they take us a couple of minutes. We'll not make the fix if it takes us two hours.
Review Guidelines
In the first pass we review all of our issues. We review the issues of all of our repositories. During review \please make sure:
to close obsolete/fixed issues and mark duplicates as appropriate,
that bugs you fix in December are assigned to the December milestone. Be conservative, see above.
to close out-of-scope feature requests assign the *out-of-scope label. There is no value in keeping issues open that don't have any realistic chance of being addressed.
close bugs as "won't fix" if there is a cost-benefit imbalance. It's not that we don't care about users who are affected by an issue but, for example, if the fix is so involved that we risk regressions for many, fixing is not a reasonable choice.
Otherwise the normal rules apply:
assign the important label to issues that
result in data loss
a breakage of extension
critical security, performance issues
UI issue that makes a feature unusable
issues that the community can take up should be labeled as help-wanted
if issues are suitable for beginners you can also add the good-first-issue label and add code pointers that help beginners to get started with a PR
feature requests that should be implemented as extensions should be labeled extensions-candidate and be closed
Tracking
Please make sure that you also do this grooming in our satellite repositories.
kieferrm commentedDec 3, 2022
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edited by alexr00
The number of issues that we receive every months across all our repositories is large enough so that despite our best efforts to triage and close issues we fall behind as soon as we carve out time for some focussed, uninterrupted development time.
Priorities for the December 2022 Housekeeping
Review Guidelines
In the first pass we review all of our issues. We review the issues of all of our repositories. During review \please make sure:
*out-of-scopelabel. There is no value in keeping issues open that don't have any realistic chance of being addressed.Otherwise the normal rules apply:
importantlabel to issues thathelp-wantedgood-first-issuelabel and add code pointers that help beginners to get started with a PRextensions-candidateand be closedTracking
Please make sure that you also do this grooming in our satellite repositories.
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