Le 13/01/2013 15:29, Jared Camins-Esakov a écrit :
Please consider lesson 1, but this e-mail is actually about lesson 2. QA is an inherently time-consuming process, and the pool for QAers is much smaller than that for signing off. I expect that as we approach the deadlines for 3.12 the number of bugs awaiting QA will decrease.
Hi Jared, This morning, while I was under my shower, I was thinking of this problem. I can't dedicate as much time as I'd like (I've a business to run, hdl has left now). Jonathan does a great job, but we (BibLibre) can't do everything. So I'm very happy with this mail !!! lesson 1= Everybody should also realize that having patches waiting for signoff for more than 3 months results in rebase needed. And rebase needed result in time consuming, that could be used elsewhere. Last week, the 10 oldest bugs where all enhancements waiting for more than 4 months. 8 where from BibLibre, 5 have been rebased, Julian spent around 6 hours to do that. Hours that could have been used to signoff someone else patch. I don't know what to do with this situation, I just can say that it's unefficient. If someone has a suggestion... (I made some, months/years ago. You know my opinion, I know many of you disagree, but any proposal would be carefully examined by me, for sure !) lesson 1 (again)= I've started last week to send an email to some french librarians that were at the hackfest, and have a personal sandbox (that BibLibre setup for them). In this mail, I point 10 of the oldest patches that they could signoff. I hope it will produce some results. I'll do that for at least 2 months, then see if the effort produces some effect. lesson 2= +1 to have you QAing patches, of course. That's how I made it last year, I think 3.10 was pretty stable. I'm sure you'll be wise enough to know which patch would be worth having another set of eyes, and ask the QA team. PS: I see on the signed-off list that 1/3 of patches don't have a complexity set. That's a shame, because "trivial" and "small patches" could be QAed by you fist. -- Paul POULAIN - BibLibre http://www.biblibre.com Free & Open Source Softwares for libraries Koha, Drupal, Piwik, Jasper