[cmake-developers] Using tags in Mantis

[Ben Boeckel]

On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 10:51:29 -0500, David Cole wrote:
> >I was wondering what folks thought of going through the bug tracker
> and
> >attaching tags to bugs to help bubble some up to the top.
> 
> How would this bubble anything to the top?

There are bugs with patches attached to them yet, probably lost in the
deluge. Having patches ignored (not even rejected) is, IMO, one of the
more demoralizing things when contributing to new projects. It would
also help to pinpoint the easy bugs to tackle.

> It would categorize and organize, perhaps, but there are still N open
> bugs where N is larger than any of us would like...

Agreed.

> I suppose it might help some people look at a smaller,
> more-interesting-to-them subset.

That's the idea :) .

> I would think before categorizing and organizing, you would want to
> minimize the tagging task itself.... i.e. -- close out old bugs that
> are now already fixed or irrelevant, and fix and resolve as many as
> possible before organizing the remainder.

If folks are going to be going through bugs *anyways*, tagging as you're
looking for easy-to-close bugs wouldn't be that hard.

--Ben