Nova Big Bug Squashing Day

Date: January 13th, 2012
Topic: Nova bugs. All of them !
Key objective: Reduce the number of open bugs
Theme: Friday the 13th. Horror movies.

What ? Where ? How ?

See BugSquashingDay for more details on Bug squashing days.

Situation

The number of open bugs filed against Nova grew from 200 to 500 in the last 6 months. Some of them no longer apply, some of them are easy fixes. Getting rid of them will allow us to have a more usable bug list as we get closer to the Essex release.

Tasks

Close old fixed bugs

Old bugs are nasty. Even when they are long dead, they clog bug views and render the lists unusable. Just look at old bugs and check if they still apply ! If they don't, close them as FixReleased (if you can pinpoint when they were fixed) or Invalid (if you can't).

Fix bugs

The best thing you can do on a bug squashing day is to kill a live one. Just look at the list of Confirmed or Triaged and pick your target. Submit a change that fixes it. Ask for review help on the channel.

Triage incoming bugs

It's sometimes hard to distinguish fresh bugs from false alarms. You can help by using your expertise or reproduction skills on New bugs. If you can confirm the issue, set the bug to Confirmed. If you can fix it, read the previous chapter. If you need more info from the reporter, set it to Incomplete. And if it happens to not really be valid, set it to Invalid !

Objectives

Primary

Number of open bugs: 550 -> 400

Secondary

Number of in progress bugs: x -> y
Number of New bugs: 80 -> 10

Statistics

tbd

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