[xwiki-devs] [Proposal] Bug Fixing Day - every Wednesday

Hi devs, Looking at jira we have 232 open bugs on core right now. This is quite worse than the figure we had when we release 1.4 final. In addition the diagram on jira.xwiki.org shows that more bugs are created than fixed lately. Since stability is one priority number 1 from now on (it's in the 1.5 roadmap as item 1) we need to do something about it. I think the main issue right now is that most of us are not working on bug fixing: * I am working on the new rendering module, required for the new WYSIWYG editor. * Jean-Vincent is working on the Administration overhaul w/ Evelina * ThomasM is working on the new cache implementation * Sergiu is working also on IX/Patch service * Artem is working on the JCR implementation We've discussed this with Thomas, Jean-Vincent and Sergiu this morning and the solution we've found is to initiate a "Bug Fixing Day". It would work as follows: * Every Wednesday all XWiki devs should work on fixing bugs only. * If they're not free on Wednesday they should do it on another day in the same week * The bugs should be taken in this order: a) bugs with patches available b) bugs planned for the current release. For example for 1.5M2 it's: http://tinyurl.com/5s2fjv c) bugs with the most votes: http://tinyurl.com/28yqvv d) bugs with higher severities Note that the URL i've given are for XWiki Core but the same applies for all JIRA projects and products. Right now we're planning to do this for Core, XE and XEM. I hope that this can be extended to other products such as Watch/Workspaces. We shall start this next Wednesday. Everyone is invited to help out and not just committers: * contributors can send patches * users can vote for their most important issues * bug reporters should be ready to verify that the fix does solve their problem Hope this is fine for everyone :) I've already collected +1 from Sergiu, Thomas, Jean-Vincent and myself. Thanks -Vincent