[Laszlo-dev] Close some stale JIRA-bugs?

[Sarah Allen]

Rails recently had a BugMash which was quite successful:  http://wiki.railsbridge.org/projects/1/wiki/BugMash

Here's how they did it:
- one person was committed to organizing the how tos and hanging in  
the IRC channel
- a couple of core team members were committed to reviewing patches
- there were prizes and a point system
- there were a few people who organized physical locations with pizza  
which created party atmosphere (this happened after the decision to  
make the bug mash happen)
- a few people (like me) flaked out and didn't participate, but enough  
other people were committed to participating so that was ok

It all happened in a single weekend, which (I think) really helped the  
newbies since there were people on deck to mentor and ask questions.

Perhaps there would be some companies in the community who be  
interested in giving prizes.  Rails also has *other* lists that are  
separate from the dev list where such activities take place (initially  
Rails Activism, more recently RailsBridge) which makes it more  
welcoming for people outside the core team to participate in  
activities that don't involve modifying the OpenLaszlo core code.

I'm not saying OpenLaszlo has to be just like Rails -- I think the  
core team has a substantially different and more positive culture  
(thank goodness!).   However, there may be ideas to learn from other  
open source projects. I would guess there are people on the forums who  
might be willing to be more involved in spreading the word.  More  
successful than "official asks" would be personal invitation from  
someone who is deeply involved.  I'm super busy these next few weeks,  
but if I had the time I would start with people who report the most  
bugs and are most active on the forums and/or laszlo-user and who are  
not vocal on this list.

Sarah


On Aug 15, 2009, at 5:27 AM, Raju Bitter wrote:

> Amy, could you do a blog post asking for community support? Or at  
> least in the forums? Officially asking for support might be good.  
> What do you think?
>
> On Aug 15, 2009, at 1:16 PM, Amy Muntz wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> Yes - it would be extremely helpful if the community could help us  
>> clean up JIRA bugs. Anything we can do to pare the list will help  
>> us more easily identify the existing problems.
>>
>> As for the bugs assigned to folks who don't work on the project any  
>> longer, I will make a pass at those and set them to unassigned so  
>> that they can be reviewed.
>>
>> In terms of where to start, I think Unscheduled (1176 open) and  
>> Future (313 open) are both good places to start. I'm happy to do  
>> the JIRA work to close them out if folks either send comments like  
>> Andre did or comment the bug itself.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Amy
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 7:03 AM , Raju Bitter wrote:
>>
>>> Good idea, André, I agree there are many stale issues, and the  
>>> question is if Amy couldn't start a request to the community to do  
>>> a bug cleanup session.
>>>
>>> What will happen with all the bugs assigned to people who don't  
>>> work for the company any more, or don't work on the project any  
>>> more?
>>>
>>> - Raju
>>>
>>> On Aug 15, 2009, at 1:45 AM, André Bargull wrote:
>>>
>>>> There are many stale entries in our JIRA which can be closed, for  
>>>> example these candidates:
>>>> 1) http://www.openlaszlo.org/jira/browse/LPP-5465
>>>> 2) http://www.openlaszlo.org/jira/browse/LPP-7080
>>>> 3) http://www.openlaszlo.org/jira/browse/LPP-7143
>>>>
>>>> 1) "__LZapplyStyleMap" isn't used anymore, so why not close this  
>>>> bug?
>>>> 2) This is a "Won't Fix" or "Invalid", fiddling with the  
>>>> prototype of built-in objects is not supported (the "intercept  
>>>> mouse gesture"- idea can be filed as a separate entry, though)
>>>> 3) Hmm, that one is not a bug, it's how JavaScript works..
>
>

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