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JSF 2.0 EG Issue tracker traversal meeting

We had an expert group meeting for JSR-314-EG today. The goal of the meeting was to make process on the issues in our issue tracker of record at <https://javaserverfaces-spec-public.dev.java.net/servlets/ProjectIssues>. Before the meeting, I took each of the issues in the current issue tracker, styled with the winning XSLT stylesheet and put them into 7 roughly equal buckets. I chose seven "issue captains" from the JSR-314 EG and Mojarra team and made each one responsible for "understanding" the issues in their bucket. That meant I could ask various questions to the group of issue captains and expect reasonably informed answers.

An hour before the meeting started, Ryan, Roger, Jim and I spent some time removing duplicates from each of our own issue captain lists. During the first 30 minutes of the meeting, we went through my issue captain list and removed duplicates. The process used in both cases: the "current" issue captain would reach each of their issues and the rest of the issue captains present would have to speak up if one of their issues was a clear duplicate of the "current" issue. The current issue captain would also make an assesment of whether or not the issue should be closed outright for any reason (FIXED, WONTFIX, etc). After 30 minutes of this, we gave up and moved on to the next exercise.

After the obvious duplicates were removed, I asked each issue captain to list their top five or so issues from their bucket list only that they would like to see addressed. This took about 50 minutes. With the remaining time, I asked each issue captain to give me their top five "easy" issues.

Here are some issue tracker queries with our results.

open issues remaining after this meeting: 180

• Top5 Issues: 21

• Easy Issues: 29

• Other issues (not top five, not easy, but we'll try to process these at a future meeting): 130

issues resolved at this meeting: 59

• RESOLVED FIXED: 5

• RESOLVED WONTFIX: 39

• RESOLVED DUPLICATE: 15

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Comments

• Ed,

  I just checked and some of the WONTFIX issues are defects. Why is it decided not to fix them?

  Posted by: behrangsa on August 21, 2008 at 12:08 AM

• We're currently discussing the semantics we're assigning to the various fields in the database.

  I think some of the issues were marked WONTFIX, when really they should be LATER.

  So, let me say that when you see WONTFIX, just think of it as WONTFIX now.

  Posted by: edburns on August 21, 2008 at 07:22 AM

• Ed, can you have a look at your RESOLVED DUPLICATE list it contains a new issue #206.

  Posted by: mriem on August 21, 2008 at 08:07 AM

• My top 3 picks are:

  https://javaserverfaces-spec-public.dev.java.net/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=1
  https://javaserverfaces-spec-public.dev.java.net/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=329
  https://javaserverfaces-spec-public.dev.java.net/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=422
  

  Posted by: rdelaplante on August 21, 2008 at 04:14 PM

• I can't believe that you are wasting time by pretty-printing issues (xslt contest) instead of resolving them. JSF 2 is long overdue.

  Posted by: joblini on August 23, 2008 at 10:07 PM

• joblini, thanks for your comments and your indication of urgency for JSF 2.0. We feel the urgency as well. You'll be happy to know that *I* didn't waste my time on it, I had someone from way outside the JSF team do so, please see the "contest" blog entry earlier this month. Hooray for community!

  Also, if you've ever tried to use Java.net's issue tracking software (whatever version of issuezilla they're running) you'd understand that pretty printing is the quickest way to start resolving issues!

  Please stick with us!

  Posted by: edburns on August 25, 2008 at 06:32 AM

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