Hi,
both in GeoTools and GeoServer we have piled up a
significant number of open issues.
How do we pick the ones to solve?
Sometimes it's really hard.
Voting on issues is not very common, and the few
issues with many votes are usually associated
to new features that would take significant time
to implement.
Issues with attached patches are also important
not to overlook, however very often the "patch"
flag is not raised, making the search quite
useless too.
So I was wondering and it occurred to me that
counting the number of attachments is usually
a good indicator of either the presence of
patches, or at the very least an indication
that the reporter went the extra mile to
attach data, screenshots, something that
makes the issue usually better defined and
thus easier to solve.
I looked around and found a Jira plugin that
allows to index, and thus sort,
by the number of attachments, and asked Codehaus
if they were interested in installing it:
http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/HAUS-1921
Well, they did!
Here are searches for open issues with the
most attachments in GeoTools and GeoServer:
http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?reset=true&jqlQuery=project+%3D+GEOT+AND+status+in+(Open%2C+Reopened)+AND+"Number+of+attachments+"+>%3D+"1"+ORDER+BY+cf[10210]+DESC%2C+key+DESC
http://jira.codehaus.org/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?reset=true&jqlQuery=project+%3D+GEOS+AND+status+in+(Open%2C+Reopened)+AND+"Number+of+attachments+"+>%3D+"1"+ORDER+BY+cf[10210]+DESC%2C+key+DESC
Well, they still return some oddball results there
are interesting one in the mix too.
It seems like an improvement over the previous
"good jiras" search attemtps, imho.
Hope it's useful for others too.
Cheers
Andrea
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Andrea Aime
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