Re: [libreoffice-design] Better organization of bugs with meta bugs

Great work! We should also have these meta tickets as the first place
to go for new contributors. What I have in mind is to list all/some at
the wiki with a short explanation. This page would replace the current
whiteboard.

2016-10-26 13:48 GMT+02:00 Yousuf Philips <ypharis@gmail.com>:
> Seems this email hasnt arrived on the design ML because it is still waiting
> in the cue, so here it is.
>
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> Subject: [Libreoffice-qa] Better organization of bugs with meta bugs
> Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2016 22:38:20 +0000
> From: Jay Philips <...@hotmail.com>
> To: LibreOffice-QA <libreoffice-qa@lists.freedesktop.org>
> CC: LibreOffice Design <design@global.libreoffice.org>, libreoffice-dev
> <libreoffice@lists.freedesktop.org>
>
> Hi All,
>
> With the ability to only set the component field to classify bugs to a very
> basic level, i believe that meta bugs should be used to further classify
> things and provide a needed means of grouping bugs.
>
> The keywords and whiteboard fields have been useful for developers to hunt
> down bugs they want to work on, but QA users not aware of these tags wont
> set them, which means that some bugs wont appear in such searches. The 'see
> also' field has been used to group similar bugs together, but how closely
> related these bugs are isnt defined with this association and having a large
> list of bugs in the see also area is a clutter.
>
> With the usage of meta bugs, the QA team will be able to
>
> 1) Easily group related bugs under a clear meta bug heading, like for a
> language group, GSoC project, vcl backend, dialog, etc.
>
> examples
> https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=83066
> https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85184
> https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102495
> https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103238
>
> 2) Easily find duplicate bugs of a particular topic by only searching
> through the bugs in a particular meta bug, which can easily be done with
> bugzilla's search or by clicking on the 'show dependency tree' link found on
> the meta bug page and then clicking on the 'show resolved' button on the
> dependency tree page to show close bugs.
>
> examples
> https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=99671&hide_resolved=0
> https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=88278&hide_resolved=0
>
> 3) Organize bugs not only under one main meta bug, but also have sub-meta
> bugs and sub-sub-meta bugs to provide an hierarchically organized structure
> to the bugs.
>
> example
> https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102019
> |- https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94551
>     |- https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103223
>        |- https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34551
>
> 4) Notifying other users CCed on a meta bug of a related bug that they can
> possibly triage and fix.
>
> Meta bugs have also helped developers in providing a central place for them
> to find all the related bugs of a particular topic they want to work on, as
> creating a new keyword or whiteboard tag for this grouping isnt efficient.
>
> examples
> https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81234
> https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91063
> https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91310
>
> So i encourage all users to associate meta bugs to bug reports they submit
> and triage and create a new meta bug if a suitable one isnt available and
> they have seen enough similar bugs of a similar topic. Adding an alias for
> the meta bug is also encouraged, as it will appear on the page of associated
> bugs rather than the bug number. For a list of all available meta bugs, you
> can find the "Meta bugs" search query[1] listed in the "Saved Searches"
> tab[2] of Preferences in Bugzilla.
>
> I've created many meta bugs over the last few months and would appreciate
> everyones help in making them as complete as possible. I have just finished
> cleaning up the sidebar meta bug[3] over the last 2 days, as it had over 150
> bugs associated with it, and plan to continue further organizing its
> sub-meta bugs into sub-sub-meta bugs when necessary.
>
> ----
>
> [1]
> https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/buglist.cgi?cmdtype=dorem&remaction=run&namedcmd=Meta%20bugs&sharer_id=22399
>
> [2] https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=saved-searches
>
> [3]
> https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=65138&hide_resolved=0
>
>
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