calling for hugday targets

[Jorge O. Castro]

On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 07:38:27AM -0400, Dereck Wonnacott wrote:
> I have a feeling there are packages that could use some good triaging
> before Intrepid is released, so send me your thoughts and I'll make some
> waves.

I would like to throw out some ideas that would help in our upstream bug
linkages since you're looking for targets. 

Graham and I have been working on this report:
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+upstreamreport which shows the top 100 projects in
Ubuntu sorted by open bugs.

It also has the added benefit of showing us what percentage of those open bugs
are in a triaged state, how many are marked as upstream, and how many of those
have real bug watches. As you can see there is room for improvement, for
example:

I love to see people use this report to find packages that have very poor
upstream linkages and using that as a basis for hug days. (The columns with the
delta symbol are possible targets).

So for example near the bottom if you look at "virt-manager", it has 74 open
bugs, of which _0_ are marked as being upstream. That means that we have 74 open
bugs on a product where no one has bothered to open an upstream task. This isn't
something to be proud of! Clicking on the 74 in the 2nd delta column will show
you these bugs, from here people can open upstream tasks and start linking bugs,
which will improve things. If you look on that column you won't find very
impressive numbers, the total says %17.20. Thankfully, when we DO find a
bug that is upstream we do a good job linking it (%92.29)

Please note that this report is still being developed - once a few changes land
soonish I will put together proper documentation on the wiki to explain the
columns, make announcements on lists, etc. but there's no reason you couldn't
start using it now to find projects that obviously stick out. Anything
below 50% on the Upstream column could be a possible hug day, and since
the list is by open bug count, driving a product off this list by resolving
bugs is a good thing. :)

Note: Lots of the single percentage and 0's on the list are things that we
are upstream for and shouldn't be on this list anyway - that will be fixed
soon.

-- 
Jorge Castro
jorge (at) ubuntu.com
External Project Developer Relations
Canonical Ltd.