Looking for something to hack on?

[Will Coleda]

On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 6:28 PM, Jonathan "Duke" Leto <jonathan at leto.net> wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> There is a new dashboard for organizations that shows all of their issues:
>
> https://github.com/organizations/parrot/dashboard/issues
>
> This is a great view into the Parrot organization and makes it easy to find
> stuff to hack on across all of our repos.
>
> I dislike Trac, so I will be using Github issues for new bugs+patches going
> forward. I hope others join in, but this isn't an "official" policy (whatever
> that is supposed to mean in the Parrot community).
>
> I am of the opinion that there is more noise than signal in our Trac TT's
> currently. We could programmatically convert our TT's to Github issues, but
> that is not a good solution either. We need to remove a lot of old and
> irrelevant tickets first.
>
> This is not a task for a new-comer, and everybody that is qualified to kill old
> tickets doesn't really seem to want to do it. Why not?
>
> Duke
>
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Speaking for myself, burnout. I've done the task too many times for
parrot so far.

In the last day or so, I provided some advice in IRC on how to triage
these old tickets and start closing some again. Hope that helps.

My recommendation on migrating tickets is to have a way to transfer
tickets over programmatically; even if you only use it on one triaged
ticket at a time, you will save yourself much madness.
(Recommendation: mention the URL for the ticket in each system in the
other system. Create a new status for "migrated" tickets, or add an
explicit comment to the closed trac ticket along with the URL "marking
resolved just to close the ticket, for update see...")


Regards.

-- 
Will "Coke" Coleda