Stopping bug management
Martin Flöser <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.kde.devel.kwin |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Hi all, I just wanted to let you know that I will no longer go through the KWin bug reports. As I hardly follow development any more I cannot really have a look at new issues coming up. I noticed that I can only comment on the general X11/Wayland issues and I'm seeing there that the new generation wants to handle things differently. For me it was most important in bug management to keep the number of open reports so low that bugs.kde.org has a meaning. If we have 500 open bug reports it becomes impossible to go to bugs.kde.org and just pick a random issue to work on. So I tended to close everything which is a general X11 issue and I closed all feature request coming in as we never implemented feature requests anyway. The way I handled the bug reports was good for the project but many users were annoyed - you can see many comments on social media complaining about the way I handled bugs. It meant when having half an hour of spare time you could go to bko and look at the issues and pick one to fix. If too many bugs are open the half an hour will be spent on finding an issue which one can actually work on and is not a general X11 issue. Especially Nate is doing this differently. I see him reopening decade old bugs which are unfixable on X11. I see him reopening bugs I closed as they are out of scope. I see him complaining when I just close bug reports. That's fine with me, if he wants to do things differently, I don't want to stand in the way and force my way. But that means I can also no longer work on the general X11 issue reports, so it doesn't make sense for me to continue going through the bug reports. Cheers Martin