[clangd-dev] Bug tracking: bugzilla, github, ???

[Sam McCall via clangd-dev]

On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 3:20 PM Kirill Bobyrev <kbobyrev.lists at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Sam,
>
> I also think that bug tracking for Clangd is not in the best shape and it
> would certainly be great to improve the process. However, I think that this
> is true for most (if not all) LLVM & Clang components, so there's a room
> for improvement.
>
I agree. It seems very likely that we'll eventually end up on github
issues. It seems very unlikely that will happen before the code moves, and
that the code will be moved sooner than a year from now. I'm not sure that
timeline works :-(


> You might be interested in a relevant discussion
> <https://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2018-October/126732.html> on
> LLVM bug lifecycle via llvm-dev.
>
Which part did you find relevant? It seems mostly about what happens after
bugs get filed successfully. I'm mostly concerned about how it's too hard
to file and find bugs.

I agree that creating a GitHub page for Issues would improve the process,
> but I am not sure whether the improvement will be significant. This would
> also make the whole process less obvious for developers and bug reporters
> since the process would be different from the "traditional" LLVM/Clang
> experience while Clangd is not clearly different from the rest of the
> tooling (e.g. it lives in the same clang-tools-extra repo).
>
Agree, at least for the fraction of LLVM developers that actively use
bugzilla - I know many mostly ignore it.
However I think we should be prioritizing user familiarity over existing
developer familiarity.


>
> I can't think of anything better at this point and I would certainly be
> interested to learn what others think about it.
>
> -Kirill
>
> On Fri, Oct 12, 2018 at 11:18 AM Sam McCall via clangd-dev <
> clangd-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
>
>> Currently I don't think we do much bug tracking at all - there are a few
>> old issues in bugzilla.
>>
>> If we announce clangd as suitable for general consumption, start shipping
>> with YCM etc for LLVM 8, we should have a reasonable channel to collect
>> feedback and bugs.
>>
>> I'm not sure bugs.llvm.org is the right thing for an end-user tool:
>>
>>    - bugzilla is an unfamiliar tool that's not part of developers'
>>    workflow
>>    - there's no way to post a bug as a new user without emailing a human
>>    to set up an account
>>    - you have to be familiar with llvm's project structure to file a bug
>>
>> The most obvious alternative is github issues, as ~everyone has an
>> account and has used the bug tracker, and it's friendly to casual new users.
>>
>> I *think* the easiest setup would be a separate "clangd" repo just for
>> issue tracking and maybe docs, rather than having to fish issues out of a
>> big llvm monorepo.
>>
>> Anyone have thoughts here? Particularly: anyone want to argue that
>> bug/feature tracking is unimportant, or that the status quo is viable?
>>
>> Cheers, Sam
>>
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