[Tinyos-devel] SourceForge Bug Database for TinyOS

[Philip Levis]

David Gay wrote:
> 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.

Hey, I paid attention to it too. :) I'll admit that I haven't for some 
time, though (essentially since I shifted to 2.x).

> 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.

I tried assigning bugs for a good year or so; it only helps if people 
who are assigned bugs actually address them. The only time I found this 
successful was when, over a five month period, I increased one bug's 
importance level a notch every month. After five months (and when at 
level 9), the person finally dealt with it.

Phil