[Geany-Devel] Questions about bugs/features trackers

[Minh Bui]

> Nobody that I know of, so please, go ahead :)
Great, now I can work on this issue without doubt.

> PS: there's no item 3, is it?
Ugh... That's a bug. : D

Thank you for your response. That was helpful. I will be sure to keep my
eyes on the Github issues tracking system.

On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 5:03 PM, Colomban Wendling <
lists.ban at herbesfolles.org> wrote:

> 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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