Re: junior kernel tasks

On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 09:35:26PM +0100, Marcus von Appen wrote:
> 
> Quoting John Baldwin <jhb_at_freebsd.org>:
> 
> > On Saturday, October 25, 2014 4:45:36 pm Mateusz Guzik wrote:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> In short, nice kernel tasks people with C language skills can do in few
> >> evenings.
> >>
> >> https://wiki.freebsd.org/JuniorJobs
> >>
> >> It is assumed you know how to obtain sources and build the kernel.
> >>
> >> What you can get in return:
> >> - your own code in FreeBSD tree
> >> - eternal glory [1]
> >> - fun [2]
> >>
> >> If you are not interested, but know someone who does, please pass it
> >> down.
> >>
> >> [1] - not really, no
> >> [2] - well, I guess that's subjective, so that's not a "no"
> >
> > Even though our bugmeisters have decided that we should not have wishlist
> > items in our bug tracker, I really wish we could store the various idea lists
> > (we have several) in an issue tracker instead.  This would allow for folks to
> > comment on ideas, vote for them, etc.  It would also make it easier for more
> > people to submit new ideas.
> >
> 
> Speaking not strictly with the bugmeister hat, but from experience, please do
> not let us go down the road of (ab)using a bug tracking solution as task and
> idea management system. I think that using the tasks feature of phabricator
> (our reviews instance) would provide better workflow support for those things,
> starting out from sketching out rough ideas, discussing them, breaking them up
> in seperate tasks (linked to and dependent on each other) and collaborating
> on them (take a look at https://developer.blender.org/T42339 for a  
> brief example).
> 
> Having said this, let's keep the bug tracker a bug tracker.
> 
> Cheers
> Marcus
> 
> 
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I disabled the tasks on phabricator to avoid having it a duplicate of bugzilla,
but if we have a use for it I can activate it!

Actually I do like the idea of the bug tracker aka bugzilla being only for bugs
and uxe phabricator for tracking the tasks

regards,
Bapt