To expand a little further though, we have been piling up regressions from previous releases too... as su_v mentioned, that list is what is milestoned for 0.49 and tagged with regression. If you remove the milestone the list is actually twice as many.
I think we might want to target at least a few of these to 0.49, such as https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/484507
I'll go over the list of them over the next few days to see what (if anything) should be tagged with blocker. I'm also of the mindset of su_v about what we ought to try for with that milestoned regression list. If we could have 0.49 with less regressions than it started with, it would be a nice bonus for everyone and a great achievement.
Cheers, Josh
On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 4:04 PM, su_v <suv-sf@...58...> wrote:
On 2013-12-02 23:49 +0100, Bryce Harrington wrote:
On Mon, Dec 02, 2013 at 03:08:33PM +0100, su_v wrote:
On 2013-12-02 08:20 +0100, Bryce Harrington wrote:
Thanks. Josh and I will get a task list together this week. Sounds like in the meantime the priority is getting regression bugs analyzed and resolved. If we haven't already we'll need a burndown list of those bugs.
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=31423493
Pasting the link from that earlier message: List of reports tagged with 'regression' and milestoned to '0.49', sorted by 'newest first': http://tinyurl.com/o9lq44w
suv, I notice the subject of the referenced email is "Non-blockers"; does that imply that the bugs in this list are not deemed to be release blockers? If that's true, then do we have a shortlist of blocking bugs, or have those all been resolved already?
I didn't choose that thread topic myself… Personally, I think that many (if not most) of the so far known regressions introduced in trunk need to (or ought to) be fixed before a new stable release branch is created.
AFAICT the impacts of the recent large merges have not been fully addressed yet (e.g. units, C++ification), and there are a couple of performance, units and precision regressions which would likely affect many users. TBH I somewhat lost track of the current state of ellipse and circle elements (both internally, and what is exposed to the user).
Reports which currently have an explicit 'blocker' status (i.e. have the tag 'blocker' added) are listed here (they are excluded from the other search): https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bugs/?field.tag=blocker
Also, I see that some good thinking has gone into setting priorities for pretty much all of these bugs, and only a handful are marked High. suv, do you have an opinion on how we should treat the bug priorities for the release? I.e., should we focus heaviest on getting the High priority bugs closed, and not really worry about the low priority ones? Or should priority be interpreted in some other fashion?
Maybe we had been too technically minded in the past when assigning the priorities, roughly based on these criteria:
- high: all crashes (unless they occur under very rare circumstances), bugs with the risk of data loos
- medium: severe bugs for which workarounds are known, bugs which produce incorrect or unxepected results
- low: only occur under rare circumstances, or can be easily worked around, GUI regressions
The statuses do not (or rarely) reflect the impact on usability or the bug's level of 'annoyance'.
Personally, I had stopped tagging additional reports as 'blocker' a couple of weeks ago (except for two reports, very recently) - it would be great if someone could help with that task (for one thing I do find it rather difficult to decide, after having read too many reactions from bug reporters disagreeing about how bugs have been triaged, and for another thing I don't really like having to decide that for reports I filed myself).
@JazzyNico - what's your view?
Regards, V
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