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John,

Will do, but after WTP 1.5 to avoid churn.

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You'll need to confirm with the webmaster, but I think renaming bugzilla components is fairly painless.  We've done it a few times in the platform, and all existing bugs automatically take up the new component.  The only downside is that any pre-canned or bookmarked queries that people have would need to be changed.


John



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John,


Point taken. Most are the acronyms of the standards. These should match the Java package names in many cases. Presumably if someone sees a stack trace they can determine the appropriate component.


Maybe we should do a mass rename after WTP 1.5? Do you know how renames are handled in bugzilla, e.g. if we renamed wsi to "Web Services Interoperability" do all the exising bugs get the new name?


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I must say, from the outside the Web Tools bugzilla component list is quite a daunting pile of acronyms: jst, wst, j2ee, jsp, ws, rdb, sse, web, wsdl, wsi, xsd, etc.  I'm sure somebody understands what all these mean, but as an outsider logging bugs I jumped on "Web Standard Tools" as one of the only component names in plain english and entered my bugs there. I think you would get lower rates of mis-filing if some of the non-obvious acronyms were expanded in the component name.


John

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>4. Triaging is just part of the problem. There are plenty of triaged bugs that have been opened for a long time. How should we maintain the hygiene of bugzilla?


Great point Arthur. WTP is currently sitting with 1984 unconfirmed, new, assigned and reopened bugs. The 80 from WST and JST don't seem like our biggest issue at this point.


>5. Is there anything we can do to help users assign bugs to the right component? Maybe add a boilerplate comment explaining how to do it. Maybe add >something to the Web site that explains the components? A decision tree?


I don't think there's much we can do in the bugzilla interface aside from opening a bug against bugzilla. I don't think listing the components with descriptions on another page will serve much use. (Are users really going to go to another page to read the description?) If these components continue to be a problem and Arthur and Naci do not have the time I'll volunteer to monitor and triage bugs opened against WST and JST.


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John,


I don't recall this issue being discussed before (but I have a very selective memory). Maybe the problem was that no one was assigned to those subproject level components, after which Naci and I got assigned? In any case, before we go deleting components, I'd like us to come up with answers to the following:


1. How to we handle bugs that really do have subproject scope?

2. If a component is deleted, what happens to the bugs that were previously assigned to it?

3. How should we ensure that all inboxes are being triaged? Is that something to add to the weekly telecons?

4. Triaging is just part of the problem. There are plenty of triaged bugs that have been opened for a long time. How should we maintain the hygiene of bugzilla?

5. Is there anything we can do to help users assign bugs to the right component? Maybe add a boilerplate comment explaining how to do it. Maybe add something to the Web site that explains the components? A decision tree?


Arthur Ryman,
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Arthur,


This is not the first time this has happened or the first time we have suggested removal of these ambiguous queues.  Make no mistake, it is a HUGE deal when ~80 bugs go unnoticed until when we are in release candidate mode.  We were specifically told not to monitor this Web Standard Tools queue because we were assured the defects would be triaged accordingly.  So, here we are...again.  


Proposal:  We use wst.web instead, and drop Web Standard Tools so this can be proactively avoided.


Reality:  This will never be an issue again because now I know it is incumbent upon me to include this queue in my queries and I and other diligent committers will keep it up to date.



John Lanuti
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Chuck,


The subproject leads own those components. I own the WST one. I thought I was keeping up, but was shocked to see so many untriaged. I don't know how they slipped by.


Many users don't know which component to assign a defect to so they just use the subproject. Also, there are some cases where a bug affects an entire subproject, or even the entire project.


I suggest we keep these, but watch eachother's backs. We should routinely do a query on the inboxes and route them to the right components.


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No that should be removed too....    I would rather have the originator guess wrong, and see it moved to the right component, then have it sit there unseen.


- Chuck


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If we choose to remove this component is there any value to keeping the "J2EE Standard Tools" component?


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It was brought to our attention this week that we have many untriaged defects sitting in various "inbox's"

A Majority of these were in the "Web Standard Tools" component where there is no clear owner, and it was brought up in the past this component should be removed from bugzilla.


Unless we have active triaging on this component, I vote to remove this component ASAP, to avoid this situation in the future.  Many of these defects should have been openned in components that I own, and

we had no idea they existed.


I want to thank John Lanuti for triaging many many defects in this component today, but we strongly vote to terminate this abandoned component.


Thanks - Chuck


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