Bug tracking and assigned to

[Brad Roberts]

On 1/20/2012 3:12 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "jdrewsen" <jdrewsen at nospam.com> wrote in message 
> news:wosqwyhggkzugyfpqjri at dfeed.kimsufi.thecybershadow.net...
>> On Friday, 20 January 2012 at 22:42:59 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>>> "jdrewsen" <jdrewsen at nospam.com> wrote in message 
>>> news:ybillabaoehmexgjosvc at dfeed.kimsufi.thecybershadow.net...
>>>>
>>>> So I've been thinking about helping out with fixing some bugs in dmd. I 
>>>> made search in the bug tracker for bugs with NEW state but quickly 
>>>> noticed that a lot of them are actually already being worked on or have 
>>>> a pending pull request.
>>>>
>>>> It would be great if the state was changed to ASSIGNED. It would also 
>>>> make the stats a bit nicer to look at I guess.
>>>>
>>>> I don't have the solution to this problem... just a rant :)
>>>>
>>>
>>> If you're still looking for DMD bugs to work on, I've got a few I can 
>>> [selfishly] suggest :)
>>
>> Yes still looking. But I'm just starting to dig into the dmd source so I 
>> guess it shouldn't be the tough bugs to start with.
>>
> 
> I have no idea what bugs would be easy or hard, but these are some of my 
> pains that AFAIK no one's working on:
> 
> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=6969
> That's the #1 biggest PITA for me, it's blocking a major refactoring I want 
> to do asap. I think I figured out something related to the problem (it's in 
> the bug report), but I have no idea if it's actually a proper solution or 
> not (probably not). The only other thing I'd be able to do at this point is 
> run the test suite and probably watch of bunch of stuff break ;)
> 
> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=846
> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=6983
> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=7277
> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=6397
> 
> Not sure if these UFCS issues have been worked on or not:
> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2883
> http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4525
> 

To be more general than paying attention to Nick's specific issues.. paying attention to the various attributes that are
available:  priority, severity, and vote count.  Each of those is easy to search on and sort by.

I fully agree with the difficulty of seeing who's working on what when no one bothers to assign bugs to themselves.