Focused and efficient triage

[nikomatsakis]

Meeting proposal info

• Title: Focused and efficient triage
• Type: non-technical

Summary

Proposal

At the broadest level, discuss the following questions:

• What are our goals with compiler team triage?
• Are we achieving those goals efficiently?

Hypothesis

More specifically, we would like feedback on the following hypothesis:

• Goal of compiler team triage should be to avoid shipping catastrophic bugs
  • i.e., things that are really embarassing or which will effect a lot of users
• Goal of compiler team triage is NOT to ensure "overall quality" of the compiler
  • that goal is maintained in a distributed way through reviews
  • but also by the working groups dedicated to a particular feature
• We should focus triage meeting time on "here is a critical bug that is not being fixed"

More details

See this hackmd.

About this issue

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[nikomatsakis]

We discussed this in our planning meeting today and concluded that we should schedule this meeting for February 28th (calendar event).

[nikomatsakis]

Closing, minutes and notes from the meeting are here