I Want To Be A Luis

October 2, 2005 11:31 pm General

I always admired Luis, ever since Ximian signed a contract to Sun for supporting us with our GNOME 2.0 work. I don’t know how he managed it, but looking through 1000’s of bugs day after day was a herculean task. Of course behind anything like that is a good woman, and I suspect having Krissa over in Africa might have helped his concentration.

That being said, over the last 2 days I’ve been trying to triage the 1000’s of bugs in Sun’s bug tracker. Historically as a team, we’ve basically avoiding regular triaging of the database and focused on P1’s and P2’s – we even got temporary waivers to avoid looking at P3’s, as we couldn’t cope with anything more with our current resources. This kinda means that anything logged as lower than a P3 gets ignored, occupies space in the database, and rots away untouched. It’s a sad reflection of not really being able to coordinate our efforts better between a community bug tracker, and our own internal one. I think we’ve done a pretty ok job about getting a stable product at the end of any given cycle, but our process feels a little broken when you have people logging nearly every bug as a higher priority only because they know logging it as anything else won’t get it fixed, let alone looked at.

I’m going to spend the entire week going through the database. I’m pretty sure that I’m going to piss off a *lot* of Sun people with what I’m doing. I’m going to generate 1000’s of emails. And sometimes, I’m going to get things wrong. I’m using my best judgement in 5+ years of GNOME development, but everyone makes mistakes….

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