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…
• 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... :)