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Re: [platform-ui-dev] [e4-dev] Platform UI Mars planning

I just came across this blog post:

	http://words.steveklabnik.com/how-to-be-an-open-source-gardener

And was reminded of this thread.  The post describes the process that Steve Klabnik used to triage and manage 800 open
issues in the Rails project.

-Andrew

On 14-07-02 10:22 AM, Lars Vogel wrote:
> OK, thanks. I agree, lets not stop the process.
> 
> Maybe after the priorisation we can still spend a bit of time in cleaning the marked bugs up. To the outside world is a
> bad message to have "600" bugs open and cleaning the list seems like to much work for one person.
> 
> Best regards, Lars
> 
> 
> 2014-07-02 15:39 GMT+02:00 Paul Webster <pwebster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:pwebster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>>:
> 
>     Hi Lars,
> 
> 
>     On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 6:13 AM, Lars Vogel <lars.vogel@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:lars.vogel@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> 
>         Thanks Dani, thanks works great.
> 
>         @Everybody, would be nice if you could run this query and validate a few bugs if they still valid. Especially
>         the "older" bugs seem outdated in several cases. I'm already doing that but with that amount of bugs, it would
>         be great if everyone from the team would review a few.
> 
> 
>     If you want to change the list of bugs we look at, you need to stop the current process on *Bug 438439*
>     <https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=438439> -Mars bug prioritization
> 
>     You also have to update
>     http://git.eclipse.org/c/platform/eclipse.platform.ui.git/tree/releng/planning/mars/ordered_list.txt  That's the
>     list that determines what is in or out of the bug prioritization list (closing bugs or setting milestones has no
>     effect at this point).
> 
>     To be honest, I wouldn't bother.  If you are looking to prioritize bugs, you will look to ones you think are
>     important.  If it turns out they're fixed that makes things better.  If you don't look at less important bugs and it
>     turns out they're fixed, that's a bug cleanup problem.
> 
>     To thin the list, you are looking at bugs you don't think are important.  Bug cleanup is a different task (and one
>     that I won't include in the planning exercise), and since we only have until Tuesday to do it, I don't know how
>     you're going to thin the bugs, update the ordered_list.txt + wiki, provide the CSV, and afford everybody time to
>     look at it.
> 
>     PW
> 
>     -- 
>     Paul Webster
>     Hi floor.  Make me a sammich! - GIR
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