Re: [xwiki-users] [XWIKI-4375] xwiki paper cuts

I think, if a project take care even about small usability issues (paper cuts), it's a _very_ good sign of the project health. Probably the current title "Project Health" does not meet the content of the page, what about "Project Stats"? Anyway feel free to remove the link from the page ;) Best regards, Roman Am Samstag, den 19.09.2009, 19:19 +0200 schrieb Vincent Massol: > On Sep 19, 2009, at 7:14 PM, Roman Friesen wrote: > > >> Feel free to start a PaperCut page on dev.xwiki.org > > > > done: http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/PaperCut > > cool > > > Currently this page is linked from the page "": > > - XWiki Project Health: > > http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/Project+Health > > > > - Contributing: > > http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Community/Contributing > > Yes this is good and where I'd have put it. > > Thanks > -Vincent > > > > > P.S I will do my best, regarding as always available time. > > > > Best regards, > > Roman > > > > Am Samstag, den 19.09.2009, 18:28 +0200 schrieb Vincent Massol: > >> On Sep 19, 2009, at 6:27 PM, Vincent Massol wrote: > >> > >>> > >>> On Sep 19, 2009, at 6:22 PM, Roman Friesen wrote: > >>> > >>>> Hello, > >>>> > >>>> I have just created the jira task "XWIKI-4375": > >>>> http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/browse/XWIKI-4375 > >>>> > >>>> <description> > >>>> As you probably know the Ubuntu team has starter the project "One > >>>> Hundred Paper Cuts": https://launchpad.net/hundredpapercuts > >>>> > >>>> They define a paper cut as (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PaperCut): > >>>> * a bug, or an unintended problem occurring within an existing > >>>> piece > >>>> of software, > >>>> * the presence of which makes a computer more difficult or less > >>>> pleasant to use, > >>>> * that is easy to fix, > >>>> * that the average user would encounter during his/her first day > >>>> of > >>>> using > >>>> > >>>> XWiki is a great software but it contains also a lot of "paper > >>>> cuts". > >>>> Such little but annoying bugs or usability issues would be a great > >>>> entry > >>>> point for new xwiki developers, because they are easy to fix. But > >>>> also > >>>> experienced xwiki commiters could relax fixing this paper cuts > >>>> after > >>>> their hard work ;) > >>>> > >>>> The proposal would be to start a similar task/project for > >>>> identifying > >>>> paper cuts in xwiki. Related jira issues could be just linked to > >>>> this > >>>> jira task." > >>>> </description> > >>>> > >>>> I have already linked one paper cut to this jira task - XWIKI-3335. > >>>> Any feedback would be very appreciated. > >>> > >>> Hi Roman, > >>> > >>> (some comment I put on the jira issue but are better posted here) > >>> Great idea. We had started something similar but now you've given it > >>> a name: a Paper Cut. What we've done so far was to identify easy to > >>> fix bug and mark them as easy in jira. > >>> For example here's the current list of issues marked as trivial in > >>> XWiki core (we need to extend this notion to all jira projects right > >>> now I think it's only in core): > >>> > >>> • Trivial: http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?mode=hide&request… > >> > >> We could decide that the trivial category we have corresponds to > >> paper > >> cuts. > >> > >> Feel free to start a PaperCut page on dev.xwiki.org > >> > >> Thanks > >> -Vincent > >> > >>> • Easy: http://jira.xwiki.org/jira/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?mode=hide&request… > >>> Here's some work to be done IMO: > >>> > >>> • Review existing issues and verify the difficulty is correctly set > >>> • Add these custom fields to all projects in jira > >>> • Prepare a page on dev.xwiki.org to explain this Paper Cut thing > >>> • Promote it on the xwiki mailing lists, twitter, etc > >>> Thanks > >>> > >>> -Vincent > >>> > >>> PS: I'm not sure XWIKI-3335 is that trivial... :) > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > users(a)xwiki.org > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users