[wp-hackers] Finding bugs to fix on Trac

[Jennifer Hodgdon]

>> >> We have a few keywords we use: commit, has-patch, dev-feedback,
>> >> 2nd-opinion, needs-testing, reporter-feedback.

>> Yeah, it would be great if everyone used them, so the reports would
>> return something useful, besides just a list of all the bugs that are
>> still open. Oh well!

> They are fairly consistently used, can you be more specific so we can
> identify the problem?

OK, run the "Needs Patch" report:
     http://trac.wordpress.org/report/13
(this returns the tickets that are open and not marked with "has-patch")

Right now, 4 of the top 10 tickets in the list have something that 
looks like a patch file attached to them; farther down in the list, I 
clicked on 5 random items and 3 had patches attached. Hence my 
conclusion that the keywords are not being used by everyone to mark 
that tickets have been patched (I am probably guilty).

My thought was that, given that we have a couple of WordPress 
developers on the list, presumably someone could write a quick SQL 
join query and make a new report that checks to find Trac items that 
actually do not have patch files attached, since presumably the 
attachments are stored in a database table... ?? I would try it 
myself, but I don't apparently have permission to create reports (even 
for my own use). The so-called "Custom Query" page does not have this 
capability either. Might be interesting to add it...

     --Jennifer