Talk:Task:Getting Nokia involved in bugs.maemo.org

Best practices for everybody
There is one assumption that not always becomes true: Bugzilla users know how to deal with bug tracking. This might apply both to users (poor reports, wrong severity/priority, reopening of wontfixes/invalids just because, bad behavior...) and maintainers (harsh resolving, lack of explanations, little knowledge of the possibilities of the tool, bad behavior too...). We see this in most free software projects and bugs.maemo.org is not exempt of this risk.

In fact, having @nokia guys around makes things a bit more difficult sometimes: certain users take the chance to establish a personal war against "Nokia", others might simply ignore the complexity behind a simple bug and a simple Nokia developer commenting on that bug. On the other hand, Nokia employees are busy enough with an internal bug tracker that counts in their internal process, and communicating to the outside makes things more complex: because of wearing the Nokia shirt you can be quoted anywhere and because some (actually many) bug resolutions are related to confidential information.

Also, Maemo gets many newcomers not familiar with free software development practices, both in the user and developer side, which makes the own concept of a public bug tracker strange for some.

For all these reasons it would be good to have a concise 'for dummies' guide for users and maintainers that everybody could refer to when learning how to get involved.--qgil 11:54, 24 July 2008 (UTC)