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

[Raju Bitter]

Great input, Sarah! I love the idea. :-)

Couldn't we connect that to the 5 years of OpenLaszlo anniversary?  
Saying: let's clear out some bugs and have a party?

Raju

On Aug 15, 2009, at 2:48 PM, Sarah Allen wrote:

> 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..
>>
>>
>
> http://www.ultrasaurus.com
>
>
>