extra custom Trac field: "difficulty"

[Vadim Zeitlin]

Hello,

I've been using "simple" tag for the tickets which I consider to be simple
to fix and which could be used as tests for the students for the next GSoC
for example (i.e. they could be asked to fix them to check if they can do
it). However sometimes a bug is a bit more difficult than this but still
something that I feel could be done relatively quickly. So I guess we also
need a "medium" tag. And, of course, sometimes there are bugs which need so
much time that they can only be tagged as "difficult".

Using tags like this does work but it's not obvious and I don't use these
tags much myself and AFAIK nobody else uses them at all. So I wonder if we
could have a separate "difficulty" combobox in Trac with these 3 (or maybe
5, to be consistent with "Priority": "Very simple", "Simple", "Medium",
"Difficult", "Very difficult") values? If it wouldn't be too difficult to
add it, I think it would be useful.

TIA!
VZ

[Peter Most]

>
> Using tags like this does work but it's not obvious and I don't use these
> tags much myself and AFAIK nobody else uses them at all. So I wonder if we
> could have a separate "difficulty" combobox in Trac with these 3 (or maybe
> 5, to be consistent with "Priority": "Very simple", "Simple", "Medium",
> "Difficult", "Very difficult") values? If it wouldn't be too difficult to
> add it, I think it would be useful.
>

This is a great idea! It makes it much easier for newcomers (like me) to find
something suitable to work on.

Regards Peter

[Bryan Petty]

On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 6:30 AM, Vadim Zeitlin <va...@wxwidgets.org> wrote:
>  Using tags like this does work but it's not obvious and I don't use these
> tags much myself and AFAIK nobody else uses them at all. So I wonder if we
> could have a separate "difficulty" combobox in Trac with these 3 (or maybe
> 5, to be consistent with "Priority": "Very simple", "Simple", "Medium",
> "Difficult", "Very difficult") values? If it wouldn't be too difficult to
> add it, I think it would be useful.

Just don't forget to add "Unknown" in there as bugs can be added
without the submitter having even the slightest clue how difficult it
would be to fix.

Regards,
Bryan Petty

[Vadim Zeitlin]

On Fri, 6 Nov 2009 22:55:28 -0700 Bryan Petty <br...@ibaku.net> wrote:

BP> Just don't forget to add "Unknown" in there as bugs can be added
BP> without the submitter having even the slightest clue how difficult it
BP> would be to fix.

Yes, either that or just allow leaving it empty (preferable IMO).

Thanks,
VZ