[Tinyos-devel] SourceForge Bug Database for TinyOS

[David Gay]

On 5/12/06, henri dubois-ferriere <henridf at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think Irfan's request is legitimate: most bugs entered into the sf
> bug database are completely ignored, but the same bug reported on one
> of the tinyos mailing list gets prompt attention (apart from the
> instance below, in recent days there was another such instance for
> three msp430 bugs).
>
> Maybe removing the link altogether is a little drastic, but couldn't
> we at least put some disclaimer next to the link informing users that
> "pending the establishment of a bug-fixing policy/process, bugs
> entered in the DB  are not being addressed as rapidly as they should
> be"??

Well I think I mostly got tired of being the only one paying attention
to it. In the new T2 regime, we could attempt to require core T2
members to actually pay attention to the bugs in systems that concern
them.

Note that this also works best if it's somebody's job to assign bugs
to people (*), rather than relying on everybody to periodically check
the web page and decide if a bug is for them or not.

*: this doesn't have to be 100% accurate, you just reassign it to the
appropriate party when necessary. Assignment-of-bugs could also be a
rotating duty.

David Gay