Re: junior kernel tasks

From: Eitan Adler <lists_at_eitanadler.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2014 16:07:31 -0700
On 28 October 2014 15:14, Baptiste Daroussin <bapt_at_freebsd.org> wrote:
> 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

having disparate trackers for "wishlist" and "bugs" is quite harmful
and splits the conversations.  It makes people learn multiple systems
and search multiple places - especially if the feature ends up being
submitted as a patch to the bug tracker.

I'd rather keep wishlist items in the bug tracker than split them into two.

(also, fwiw, I'd rather keep the tasks number space clean should we
ever decide to import from bugzilla -> phabricator)


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Eitan Adler
Received on Tue Oct 28 2014 - 22:08:03 UTC

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