Re: [boost] Towards a plan to reduce active tickets

Subject: Re: [boost] Towards a plan to reduce active tickets
From: Christopher Jefferson (chris_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-05-15 11:55:50

On 15 May 2011, at 11:17, Vicente BOTET wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I've inspected the number of tickets since the las Bug Sprint and we ca see that we are having a mean of 18 additional active tickets each month.
> 
> month created closed diff
> 01/05/10 99 107 8
> 01/06/10 122 316 194 // Bug Sprint
> 01/07/10 103 56 -47
> 01/08/10 115 120 5
> 01/09/10 85 34 -51
> 01/10/10 105 91 -14
> 01/11/10 109 80 -29
> 01/12/10 83 92 9
> 01/01/11 98 79 -19
> 01/02/11 98 71 -27
> 01/03/11 161 107 -54
> 01/04/11 105 145 40
> MEAN 106,2 87,5 -18,7
> 
> * MEAN is calculated since the last Bug Sprint, that is for the last 10 months.
> 
> I don't know what could be done to instead of having more active tickets each month having less. While the Bug Sprints are useful I think that we need to have a plan to reduce them is a regular way.
> 
> I know that a lot of people would be at BoostCon. It would be great if this subject could be discussed in one of the general sessions.
> 
> if you have any suggestion, please replay to this post and share your view with the Boost community.

I'd be interested to know, from someone who is better at manipulating trac than me, where things are getting stuck. Is it bugs which aren't even looked at? Patches never get written? Patches never get applied?

I won't be at boostcon, but I would be very happy to lend real help into helping get the bug database under control, as long as that job doesn't mainly involve kicking library maintainers into applying patches.

Chris