On Mar 1, 2005, at 3:22 PM, Ken Causey wrote:

> Hey Ned,
>
> Looks like you have been spending time thinking about Mantis.  In the
> very near future the Janitors project will be spawning a small sub-team
> to discuss what improvements can be made to Mantis in the short term to
> make it easier and clearer to use, particularly to newcomers.  Would 
> you
> be interested in participating in that group?  Perhaps even chairing 
> it?
> If so please subscribe to the janitors mailing list
> ( http://discuss.squeakfoundation.org/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?8 ) and express
> your interest.

Yes, I just posted an initial "response" to Ned's questions on the 
Janitors list.  For anyone interested in helping to resolve these 
issues, feel free to join the discussion in that list (even if you 
can't chair the sub-team ;) ).

- Doug


>
> Ken
>
> On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 11:25 -0800, Ned Konz wrote:
>> It's not clear to me how we're supposed to map the use of Mantis to 
>> our
>> workflow.
>>
>> This should be documented, perhaps in such a way that clicking the 
>> "Docs" link
>> in Mantis actually explains something, instead of displaying an empty 
>> page.
>>
>> What do the various choices mean for severity, status, and resolution?
>>
>> How do changes to these choices relate to specific actions by members 
>> of our
>> community?
>>
>> For instance:
>>
>> When someone posts a fix to Mantis, what is the status and resolution 
>> supposed
>> to be set to?
>>
>> How does one choose between "minor" and "major" severity?
>>
>> When someone tests a proposed fix and wants to recommend that it gets 
>> applied
>> to the update stream (i.e. harvests it), how should the bug fields 
>> change?
>> Should this become "resolved"?
>>
>> When a fix goes to the update stream, how should the bug fields 
>> change? Should
>> this be "resolved" -> "closed"?
>>
>