Question - is there anything Roundup can do to help triage? Extra status or keyword values ("has patch",
There is "patch" keyword already, and a public query "Patches" (as well as "My Patches")
"ready to go", ...)?
We could give more people the right to set the resolution to "Accepted". This is a matter of trust, though - if the committer then still needs to review it, anyway, nothing is gained.
More canned searches ("Show Open" and "Show Unassigned" aren't a lot of help)?
Please go to the "edit" label next to "Search". You can store your own searches, but you can also share searches with others.
Custom reports (summaries by type)?
This I don't understand - how is it different from a search?
Or are such things there and simply not publicised enough?
Perhaps. I really don't know what percentage of interested users is aware of roundup capabilities.
I just did a quick experiment, checking for trivial documentation patches I could review, and some things became obvious:
1. There is no way of telling which issues have a patch.
There is the patch keyword, and you can query for it. There is a canned query published already.
2. Some patches marked as "documentation" are doc fixes, others seem to be issues where it has been decided that the behaviour is correct as is, but needs to be documented. Fair enough, but it's much harder to assess the latter, and there's no way of just grabbing the former (for example, to spend a spare 30 minutes reviewing simple stuff).
There is the "easy" keyword. Of course, it might also be useful to triage more issues as "easy".
3. There's nothing obvious I can do to move an issue forward. Sure, I can make a comment, but that's about it. I'd like something that stood a bit more chance of getting noticed (like a status change, or maybe a list of people who think this is good to apply, which I can add myself to).
The "developer" role has more user interface. I've just given it to you.
Hmm, I've spent more time on this than I should have, and it's gone way off topic. Is there anywhere better to discuss it?
There is the tracker-discuss list for discussion, and the meta tracker for actual problems/wishes for the tracker. Regards, Martin