[yocto] Yocto weekly bug trend charts -- WW11

[Saul Wold]

On 03/19/2012 01:22 PM, Darren Hart wrote:
> On 03/19/2012 01:18 PM, Richard Purdie wrote:
>> On Mon, 2012-03-19 at 10:13 -0700, Darren Hart wrote:
>>> On 03/19/2012 09:18 AM, Stewart, David C wrote:
>>>>> From: yocto-bounces at yoctoproject.org [mailto:yocto-
>>>>> bounces at yoctoproject.org] On Behalf Of Xu, Jiajun
>>>>> Sent: Monday, March 19, 2012 8:33 AM
>>>
>>>>> BTW, when I check the open bug data, I find that a new variable is introduced
>>>>> with new bugzilla for field "severity" - janitors. We do not include the bugs
>>>>> marked as janitors in "Yocto Weekly Open bug Trend(Severity)". My thinking
>>>>> is that janitors is similar with enhancement. We could treat it as
>>>>> enhancement(with weight value "0"), or if we think it should be included into
>>>>> WDD, we could set a weight value for it. How do you think of it?
>>>>> Fortunately, we only have 4 bugs marked as janitors, and they are all new
>>>>> reported last week. We could simply update the bug trend once we make the
>>>>> decision.
>>>>
>>>> I suggest we make the janitor severity the same as low in the WDD calculation.
>>>>
>>>
>>> I don't know what "low" would map to. The key says:
>>>
>>> "The weight we use for each severity: Critical:10, Major:7, Normal:5,
>>> Minor:3, Enhancement:0 "
>>>
>>> In my view, Janitors should be marked the same as Enhancement, 0. If a
>>> bug is important enough to track and impact release, it shouldn't be a
>>> janitors bug, which by definition are intended to sit in a pool for
>>> new-comers and irregular contributors to pick up.
>>
>> I did talk briefly with Dave earlier and it was hard to decide whether
>> these were minor or enhancement in nature. Enhancements are about adding
>> new functionality, bugs of whatever severity are about issues in
>> existing features. Janitor class issues could be in either category so
>> you can argue this both ways from that perspective.
>>
>> Did we end up deciding to have a janitor user to assign these too in the
>> end or are they going to remain with various people until assigned? If
>> the latter, I'd hate to see the WDD being skewed against people due to
>> high numbers of janitor bugs so that might sway my argument.
>
> Last I spoke with Michael (added to CC), the plan was to assign these to
> a default "Yocto Janitor" id. Unfortunately, we don't have a way to set
> this up for automatic assignment like we do for "component owner", as
> Janitor bugs are currently identified by severity.
>
We can just take care of this during bug creation or triage manually.

Sau!