Stream: Coq devs & plugin devs

Topic: Issue triaging


view this post on Zulip Gaëtan Gilbert (Feb 19 2019 at 13:26):

@Maxime Dénès why are you asking about assignment to random issues? What would such an assignment mean?

view this post on Zulip Maxime Dénès (Feb 19 2019 at 13:27):

shouldn't all issues have an assignee?

view this post on Zulip Gaëtan Gilbert (Feb 19 2019 at 13:27):

we already have a bunch of issues with a meaningless assignment

view this post on Zulip Maxime Dénès (Feb 19 2019 at 13:27):

ok, so maybe I misunderstood the conclusion of the WG discusssion on issues

view this post on Zulip Gaëtan Gilbert (Feb 19 2019 at 13:27):

shouldn't all issues have an assignee?

see

What would such an assignment mean?

view this post on Zulip Maxime Dénès (Feb 19 2019 at 13:27):

it would mean people are planning to work on it

view this post on Zulip Maxime Dénès (Feb 19 2019 at 13:28):

I thought we wanted somebody to triage issues and make sure they get an assignee

view this post on Zulip Maxime Dénès (Feb 19 2019 at 13:28):

did I misunderstand?

view this post on Zulip Maxime Dénès (Feb 19 2019 at 13:28):

random issues

they are not chosen randomly btw

view this post on Zulip Maxime Dénès (Feb 19 2019 at 13:28):

I thought we wanted somebody to triage issues and make sure they get an assignee

@Théo Zimmermann maybe you recall better the conclusion

view this post on Zulip Vincent Laporte (Feb 19 2019 at 13:29):

it would mean people are planning to work on it

view this post on Zulip Vincent Laporte (Feb 19 2019 at 13:29):

lol

view this post on Zulip Maxime Dénès (Feb 19 2019 at 13:29):

?

view this post on Zulip Vincent Laporte (Feb 19 2019 at 13:29):

It’s not because you put a tag that you solve the man-power issue.

view this post on Zulip Maxime Dénès (Feb 19 2019 at 13:29):

sure, that's what I explained during the discussion

view this post on Zulip Maxime Dénès (Feb 19 2019 at 13:30):

but how does not triaging the issue help with it?

view this post on Zulip Vincent Laporte (Feb 19 2019 at 13:30):

what is « it » ?

view this post on Zulip Maxime Dénès (Feb 19 2019 at 13:31):

the man-power issue

view this post on Zulip Vincent Laporte (Feb 19 2019 at 13:31):

I think it’s unrelated.

view this post on Zulip Vincent Laporte (Feb 19 2019 at 13:31):

(to triaging)

view this post on Zulip Maxime Dénès (Feb 19 2019 at 13:31):

hmmm

view this post on Zulip Maxime Dénès (Feb 19 2019 at 13:31):

I'm a bit lost

view this post on Zulip Gaëtan Gilbert (Feb 19 2019 at 13:31):

it would mean people are planning to work on it

are you really planning to work on all of these 49 issues? https://github.com/coq/coq/issues/assigned/maximedenes?page=2&q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+assignee%3Amaximedenes
currently issue assignment is meaningless AFAICT so adding some is just noise
if we want it to mean something we need to first clean all current assignments, then decide on what the meaning is exactly ("planning to work on it" is too vague imo)

view this post on Zulip Maxime Dénès (Feb 19 2019 at 13:31):

are you really planning to work on all of these 49 issues?

yes, maybe I took some wrongly, but that would be an exception

view this post on Zulip Maxime Dénès (Feb 19 2019 at 13:32):

then decide on what the meaning is exactly ("planning to work on it" is too vague imo)

fair enough, what would you suggest then?

view this post on Zulip Gaëtan Gilbert (Feb 19 2019 at 14:06):

I think triaging is more about classification than assignment
I can see 2 axes for classification:

if we actually do triaging the above would probably need some adjustment of course

then assignment could reflect some commitment to make progress (even if not fully committing to making a fix), so when assigning one would indicate how long until they expect to have news, eg "sometime in the next 2 weeks I'll try to debug this", then either it actually happens (5 days later: "I got bla bla results, no more time to work on this so removing assignment") or it doesn't and whoever looks upon the PR can remove the assignment (or the assignee can do it themselves when they realise they'll miss the deadline)
Probably nobody is going to say "I'll have a look before 2100 lol" and assign so deadlines should remain reasonable and we could clean old assignments / guess that an assignment is outdated just by looking at the last update date on the PR

lots of issues would have no assignee since we don't have enough people to work on all 1.8k, that's basically what @Vincent Laporte was saying IIUC

Personally my work is pretty unorganised so if I follow that assignment scheme it would look like "I'm looking at this today" -> a few hours later: "well that went nowhere" or "here are some results" or "here's a PR"
the idea is more organized people may get more value out of it, and more importantly I don't know what else we could do with issue assignments (which may mean we just don't have a use for them)
it's not like we can say "if you're assigned then you have to fix this by next release" or some such since when the issue isn't fixed nothing will happen

anyway I'm just making this up so if you have any comments speak up

view this post on Zulip Maxime Dénès (Feb 19 2019 at 14:40):

sounds good to me

view this post on Zulip Théo Zimmermann (Feb 19 2019 at 18:49):

FTR I had said I would be writing a proposal of an issue triaging policy and I agree with what @Gaëtan Gilbert has said above. In particular, assignment should mean short term commitment (with deadline) and should be removed when we realize we are not going to work on it soon.

view this post on Zulip Théo Zimmermann (Feb 20 2019 at 14:33):

I liked the "priority: nice to have" phrasing of @Gaëtan Gilbert, so I renamed the previous "priority: low" label (that sounded quite negative when putting on some user's bug report).

view this post on Zulip Théo Zimmermann (Feb 20 2019 at 14:33):

Regarding "high" priority, ideally we would like to list for who it is high priority (a single user, many users, Consortium users, influential user, developer) and to make sure that there is a limited number of high priority bugs listed per user, but this is definitely not something that can be achieved with tags.

view this post on Zulip Théo Zimmermann (Feb 20 2019 at 14:36):

That being said we can search issues by number of :+1: (is:issue is:open sort:reactions-+1-desc ) which could serve as an indicator of the demand among users if it was used more often.


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