Re: [boost] [Bug Sprint] Final report for the (late 2010) Bug Sprint

Subject: Re: [boost] [Bug Sprint] Final report for the (late 2010) Bug Sprint
From: Jim Bell (Jim_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-12-07 12:26:46

On 1:59 PM, Vicente Botet wrote:
>
> Marshall Clow-2 wrote:
>> Well, the bug sprint is over. [ But that doesn't mean you have to stop
>> fixing bugs if you don't want to! ]
>>
>> So - what did people think went well during the bug sprint?
>> What went poorly?
>> What can we do better next time (assuming that there is a next time)?
>>
> ...I would track in the daily reports the number of Patches.

+1

> IMO a good
> measure of a good/bad Bug sprint should be the number of open Bugs, not the
> number of open tickets. In particular I will not count the Support, Task or
> Feature Requests tickets as they are not associated to a bad behavior of the
> libraries.

+1

> [...]
>
> In addition to the Bug Sprint I would like we start an open activity that
> would add more regression tests. [...]

I think resources should first be spent making the existing regressions
pass.

And more regressions should flow out of valid bug reports. (See
Boost.Guild ticket handling
<http://jc-bell.com/contributions/boost-guild/boost-ticket-handling>.)