[Geany-Devel] Questions about bugs/features trackers

Colomban Wendling lists.ban at xxxxx
Fri Jul 3 22:03:54 UTC 2015


Hi,

Le 03/07/2015 23:48, Minh Bui a écrit :
> Hello, I'm a student who wants to contribute to Geany. I've read the
> HACKING file and surf through the bug/features tracking list.

Great :)

> There are several questions I would like to ask:
> 
> 1. What are the "open" tickets? Are they issues that people have
> proposed and haven't been picked up by the development team?

Open is the default state on SF, so it can mean that
* Nobody really looked at the ticket
* Someone looked, found it sensible but didn't do anything else

So yeah basically it's what you guessed.

> If the answer to the question above is "yes" then:
> Are the "open-accepted" tickets are tickets that the development team
> has accepted to work on?

Basically, it means "okay, we confirm/agree this is an issue/feature to
have".

> 2. Why do we have to use 2 different tracking systems? I noticed that
> the issues tracking on Github and the one on SourceForge do not match
> with others. Which is the most active recent tracking system?

Basically, we're (slowly) moving to GitHub.

> 4. Assuming my assumption for the first question is correct, I would
> like to work on this: http://sourceforge.net/p/geany/bugs/1026/. But I'm
> in doubt because I don't know if someone has already working on this.

Nobody that I know of, so please, go ahead :)

BTW, this is a good example of "open-accepted", Lex just said "you're
right that's a bug we need to fix", but didn't do anything further (yet).
Though, we are pretty bad at managing our bug tracker, so I wouldn't be
surprised there are open tickets that we forgot to close (probably
because we fixed the issue separately), or await for a long time :(

Regards,
Colomban


PS: there's no item 3, is it?


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