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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: The number of unassigned bugs is worrisome
From:       Dirk Stoecker <kde () dstoecker ! de>
Date:       2006-01-13 16:32:39
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.63.0601131705300.25104 () dirkwork ! site
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On Fri, 13 Jan 2006, Thiago Macieira wrote:

> What we do need is manpower. If each Konqueror developer fixed only one 
> bug per day in Bugzilla, we'd see the number grow absurdly for Konqueror.

I thought there are more developers. I do not mean the core team, but each 
developer doing work in a special area. Thought I never was a core member 
in such a highly accepted application as konqueror, so I do no know the 
exact state for this. My projects are a bit less active :-)

There is always a difference between confirming and fixing. The first can 
usually be very fast, whereas the second usually takes much time. Letting 
the core developers doing the fixing only for real bugs allows better 
overall performance. So the idea of Mark Taff to do mainly 
UNCONFIRMED-->CONFIRMED bug report handling is a good thing I think. Not 
necessarily using up-to-date KDE version. A normal distribution based 
version will probably be enough for most reports. At least a second one 
handling the same report will get the developer a better description.

Finally a note: Don't blame on manpower. You will not get more. If there 
is more manpower for KDE you will have more projects running which again 
generate more bug-reports. The main task of development is to use the 
existing manpower to its best extend. This is something like an universal 
truth for every development.

Ciao
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