[Scummvm-devel] Pending Bugs... (Was Re: Scummvm-devel Digest, Vol 28, Issue 12)

[D G Turner]

Martin,
  Firstly, I concur with your comments about assigning bugs when
  actively working on this. I have cleared quite a few assignment
  of bugs to developers who have left the project or are very
  inactive, so that others can take a look at them. While a bug
  being assigned should not be a block on other developers looking
  at it, it is a psychological one as it tends to disuade.

  Secondly, there are only 9 pending bugs left in the Trac database
  currently as I have done some work over the last few weeks to close
  out any stuck in that state. Of the remaining, about 3 should close
  based on the pending OSX / iOS Pull Requests.

  As you are probably aware, pending is the status for the bug needing
  more information from original submitter to replicate, or to confirm
  fix before closing. As such bugs like this do tend to sit for a while
  before people get back, but when a pending bug is not able to be
  replicated due to lack of information and the submitter has been
  unresponsive for a prolonged period i.e. at least a month or two, it
  is probably reasonable to close them as worksforme or similar.
  Similarly on waiting for confirmation of a bug fix, though in both
  cases we tend to just leave the bugs a bit longer in case anyone
  else wants to confirm.

  Anyway, just my POV :)

  Good luck with the AGI/SCI bugs!
Thanks,
David Turner

On 26/10/18 10:32, Martin Kiewitz wrote:
> Hi Matan,
> 
> AGI/SCI only of course, as I said:
> At least I do not assign bugs to myself unless I'm really actively working on them atm (plus looking forward to solve them very soon) - exceptions may happen of course.
> That way I don't block other developers from looking into them as well.
> Maybe that's not a good way of handling it, idk.
> 
> I also think a few bugs are still set to "pending" after they were already fixed. The bugs are simply waiting for a response from the submitter. Maybe there is even a problem sending response e-mails to everyone. Maybe some e-mails are getting detected as spam and are getting discarded. Who knows. Those bugs should maybe get checked by someone else and then get closed accordingly, when it's known that the bug is now gone.
> 
> Kind Regards