diff --git a/src/content/news/issueChanges.md b/src/content/news/issueChanges.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..38c087a --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/news/issueChanges.md @@ -0,0 +1,41 @@ +--- +title: Changes to the Hyprland issue tracker +date: 1743879190 +author: + name: Vaxry + link: https://github.com/vaxerski/ + picture: /imgs/profile_pictures/vaxry.webp +--- + +Hello there, it's your overlord speaking. + +Recently, I've made some big changes to how our issue tracking works. The reason was simple: the +issue tracker was a dumpster. Tons of bad, stale, incomplete, etc. issues. It was _unmaintainable_. + +I've pondered at the solutions I had, and I've also made a poll amongst you to vote on what you'd +like to see as the solution. Ultimately, the approach Ghostty took won, and I am also quite in favor of it. + +Essentially, you create a discussion instead of an issue, and once that discussion has enough attention, +information, and is confirmed, it can be promoted to an issue. That means that all the things in the issue +tracker are instantly actionable, as they are well-understood and confirmed. + +I know it might seem weird to close 1.3k issues just like that, but trust me, most of them are bad. + +For once, 70% of them were marked as stale. Commenting on a stale issue removes the tag, and yet ***70%*** were +stale, meaning it was very likely nobody gave a damn. + +Secondly, it's a good opportunity to take a reset, and get rid of dupes. There are many issues duped. + +Thirdly, we can now tag issues properly, which will make it easier to track and categorize. + +I know it puts a bit more work onto the user, but that's the point! You, as a user, spending 5 more minutes is nothing, +but for us, those 5 minutes per user cascade into hours and hours of boring work that sucks the energy out of +us that we could've spent on the actual important thing... writing code, you know. + +At any rate, I hope this change helps us write better code, and write it faster. + +Cheers, +vax. + +New Issue Guidelines: [https://wiki.hyprland.org/Contributing-and-Debugging/Issue-Guidelines/](https://wiki.hyprland.org/Contributing-and-Debugging/Issue-Guidelines/)
+Wiki MR: [https://github.com/hyprwm/hyprland-wiki/pull/1024](https://github.com/hyprwm/hyprland-wiki/pull/1024)