Online Developer Meeting (2021-04-27): Difference between revisions

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* https://octave.space/savannah/
* https://octave.space/savannah/


=== Bug Maintenance/Clean Up ===


=== Bug Maintenance/Clean Up ===
:''The author of this topic did not attend the meeting. There was a short discussion about [[GSoC]] and the [[Short projects]] page.''
For preparing for GSOC it states to fix bugs, missing functions, etc.
The ideal scenario would mean being inundated with fixes, and new functions.


There are already ~1600 open bugs at 1 min/bug this is over 1 day.  
There are already ~1600 open bugs at 1 min/bug this is over 1 day.  
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* Maintainers have the function but have not submitted it {{bug|58530}}
* Maintainers have the function but have not submitted it {{bug|58530}}


Note this last one is important to avoid comments as in {{bug|32088}}
For preparing for [[GSoC]] it states to fix bugs, missing functions, etc.
 
The ideal scenario would mean being inundated with fixes, and new functions.
What is the best approach to resolving this?
A maintained [[Short projects]] page would be necessary to avoid comments as in {{bug|32088}}.
*A new wiki page so one with permission can see all the "easy closes"
*Pinging bugs/patches for a status update.


If this is out of the intention of the meeting please delete.
What is the best approach to resolving this?
* <strike>A new wiki page</strike> so one with permission can see all the "easy closes".  (Please reuse the [[Short projects]] page for this purpose, which is currently unmaintained.)
* Pinging bugs/patches for a status update.  (Always a good idea and this is basically what happens very slowly.  It would be great to see more volunteers triaging the bug and patch trackers.)


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