19 Feb
2019
19 Feb
'19
8:16 a.m.
Hi Vincent,
On 16/02/2019 12:25, Vincent Massol wrote:
Hi devs,
No feedback so I guess everyone is ok with this.
I’ve now updated https://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Roadmaps/
I’ve also suggested to have an objective of collectively reducing the bug count by 50 in
XWiki 11.2 and 50 more in XWiki 11.3, with the goals of closing bugs (not necessarily
fixing them, BFD-like).
My computation: 1 bug closed per day (we can easily close 5-6 if we find dups/won’t
fix/etc, taking 1 to have margin) * 5 (days of week) * 3.5 (for the month, keeping some
margin) * 3 (active FTE devs on XS) = 52.5.
Ideally we should focus on quantity and not quality, and take bugs that don’t take more
than 1-2 days to fix.
I'm mixed with this idea of focusing on quantity and not quality here:
when it's about BFD I'm ok with it since we only got one day to fix
them. Now here we got two months, so we can use them to also focus on
more difficult bugs that are there for a while, at least to discuss on
what we plan to do to fix them.
To give some figures, out of 44 critical bugs in
Commons/Rendering/Platform 31 of them are there for more than one year.
I know those are pretty difficult to fix, but then we can spent a bit of
time on them to at least analyze them.
Now maybe I'm just too young on the project and all of them have been
thoroughly analyzed already and they're not fixed because basically we
cannot right now?
WDYT?
Simon
That seems doable to me, WDYT?
Thanks
-Vincent
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On 11 Feb 2019, at 16:33, Vincent Massol
<vincent(a)massol.net> wrote:
Hi devs,
We have already started defining the roadmap for XS 10.2, see
https://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Roadmaps/#HXWiki11.2
However, it’s come to my realization that we’re having a lot of stability issue on XS
these days. I see plenty of users messages on the forum about users failing to use XWiki
or to upgrade XWiki and having problems in general. I have the feeling that our quality
has regressed.
If we check our number of bugs created vs number of bugs closed for 2018, we can clearly
see that we’re loosing the battle since Feb/March 2018, see:
https://jira.xwiki.org/secure/Dashboard.jspa?selectPageId=10352#Created-vs-…
Since Feb/March we’re at 820 vs 963 which means we have a relative difference of 143
bugs. Note that the BFD sessions are not enough and they don’t close a lot of bugs anymore
(this can be seen on https://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Blog/XWiki%20Days).
I believe that XWiki’s stability and reducing user frustration for installation/upgrades
is a key aspect and it’s one of the biggest possible contributor to Active Installs.
Thus I’m proposing to devote 2 releases (i.e. 2 months) to focus on bug fixing and thus
on XWiki stability, namely
* XS 10.2
* XS 10.3
Note that this is something that I’ve already discussed with committers from XWiki SAS.
Please voice your opinion if you disagree (or even if you agree, always good to get
confirmation we’re going in the right direction ;)).
Thanks
-Vincent