Re: Bugfest

Hi again, > On 28 Dec 2014, at 03:11, Andrea Faulds <ajf@ajf.me> wrote: > >> On 28 Dec 2014, at 03:09, Jacob Bednarz <jacob.bednarz@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> What do you mean by this? What’s a priority? You can sort by votes, you can filter by >>> status, I’m not sure what you mean with “on a label”. >>> >>> Could you please elaborate? Thanks. >> >> Sure - A label can be anything that is used to allow finer searching of issues. For >> example, I don't have a specific area of the PHP internals which I am concentrating on and >> instead would like to try a little of everything to see what I enjoy. If there was a label such as >> 'low hanging fruit' that could be searched upon and actioned by new comers. Instead, I >> need to go through all the packages and manually search for these entry level bugs. > > Well, there isn’t such a label because labels have to be created by people going through and > adding that label to bugs. So someone has to look through 4000 bugs. > >> One other option might be adding a label which outlines the amount of effort required to >> complete the bug. I.e. easy, intermediate, hard. > > Same issue here. I just want to follow up on what I just said, as I think I probably sounded quite dismissive. Those are good ideas and I think we probably should do them, but it’s not really a problem with the PHP bug tracker (tag support could be added if we needed it), rather that nobody’s gone and added such tags, I think. Perhaps we need a triage system like we sort-of have for pull requests. -- Andrea Faulds http://ajf.me/