I completely agree with everything you say. A few thoughts in-line...
On Thu, Dec 6, 2018 at 12:37 PM Guillaume Smet <guillaume.smet(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
== What to do then
There are a couple of options:
1/ no workaround, then we should consider it for 5.x
If it is fixed in 5 then it should be fixed in 6 as well. Either it is no
longer a problem or because we port the fix from 5 to 6. Not saying
exactly how that happens - just that that needs to be the end result.
2/ there is a viable workaround, we can postpone it to 6, but we
definitely would need to have something to mark them as we need to fix them
(a version, maybe, or a tag?) - one thing is that it would probably be a
good idea to categorize things a bit because when you revisit something for
6, it would be a good idea to have the existing bugs in mind as it could
influence the design.
Using a tag seems enticing, but experience tells me that won't really have
the effect I think you want.
* if it's something we want to fix in 6, there might be several
options:
2.1/ we can already fix it in 6 because the features are already
implemented
2.2/ we can't fix it right now
IMHO, we should start considering taking into account 2.1/ into the daily
work for 6 if we want to make this work as otherwise we will end up with a
very big pile of bugs when 6 finally gets finalized.
As for 2.2/, we should really have a way to keep track of them and push
them to case 2.1/ when we can. Note that it's the same case if it's more an
improvement but we consider it as something we want: if we want it, we
should find a way to keep track of it somehow.
That also means that we would need someone familiar with 6 to help
triaging the issues. IMHO, this can be done once a week, if done regularly
and steadily.
If we continue fixing bugs, even in 6 only, that still says to the
contributor "we hear you, we are improving". If we just stop fixing bugs
until 6 is more or less feature-complete, then we send a very bad message
IMHO. And we will end up with a pile of unfixed issues in the bugtracker
that we won't really be able to deal with. And less users.
Alpha1 just released the fix for HHH-37. Yep, that's right 37 - the 37th
issue ever since we moved to Jira. We *do* keep improving ;) And that's
just one of the many.
But yes your point is valid. It is very important to keep fixing bugs.