On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 07:23:35PM -0300, bulia byak wrote:
On 8/27/05, Bryce Harrington <bryce@...260...> wrote:
For even releases, we use the tallied bug counts like we've done before, but for odd releases (starting with 0.43), we instead count RFE scores.
This may be a good idea, but consider that a feature needs much more time to be done well, on average, than a bug. A quick bug fix is good, but a "quick feature" is not always so. I don't think we have a lot of "easy" ones in the tracker anyway.
True, although since we've mined the bug tracker pretty heavily of the easy bugs over the past several releases, but haven't done that at all for the RFE tracker, I suspect for this first time through we may find more quick features than we'd find otherwise.
Knowing how good the Inkscape team is at knocking out features, I think we could set our goal at 400 points worth of features.
I think that's too high. Unless we count everything starting from 0.42.
Sure, I can start the counting from the 0.42 release. I set the goal high because while I know you've been good at checking and closing features, my bet is that there are ones you've missed, and I bet we may be able to get a lot of points just from those.
Also most RFEs are unprioritized at 5 (and unlike bugs, how are we to prioritize them - by difficulty? by importance?)
Yes, I've noticed this. I asked Alan, and he's volunteered to help with this tomorrow.
It's a good question about how to decide how to prioritize them. Offhand, I think RFEs that a lot of users want would score higher. RFEs that augment existing functionality would score higher than ones that require extensive new development work. Beyond that, I think RFE scoring is going to be fairly subjective no matter how we approach it; perhaps we should just accept that the scores will be a bit arbitrary initially, and maybe as we go through the process we'll get a better opinion of how they should be scored, and adjust accordingly.
Does anyone knows if Kees will be able to do static rpms? If not, are there any volunteers?
Yes, I spoke to him about RPMs after the last release. He said he will no longer do static RPMs. I think he feels that they cause more problems than they solve. I don't completely agree, but I see his point.
I'm out of my depth here, but my impression was that they worked relatively well. I think even autopackage had more bugs reported than static rpms.
He has the same opinion about autopackage, but he and I have agreed to disagree there (I think autopackage is a great solution, I think he thinks that it's too much of a crutch and that things should be better addressed by the distro itself.) I'll try to get him to post his thoughts about this (I'm not sure he's following inkscape-devel very closely anymore.)
Bryce