Liferay Community Verifier Program

As you look back on the Liferay Community, you can see many innovative contributions and outstanding achievements by our wider community of enthusiasts, users, customers, partners, and employees.  You can also see a large ball of abused and ignored bug reports, connected to us by a big chain, limiting the utility of the reporting system and efficiency of software development on the project!

Today begins a new community program at Liferay: Community Verifier.  I mentioned this a long time back, and we now have the resources in place and I have the time to manage such an undertaking. I have sent instructions to those that have already volunteered (almost 25 initially, with more to come hopefully!)

The goal of this program is to address issues (not fix them per-se, just triage them) in our issue database, especially those issues filed against past releases that may still be valid, but have been ignored for some time. We will make sure the bug still exists in recent releases, and if they do, promote them to the latest release and assign to the appropriate staff to resolve, otherwise we will close them out as fixed or not reproducible. 

Of course, new issues are still coming in, however if you look at the community's performance over the last year, we have chopped that mountain roughly in half (from 1700 "unverified" last year to 867), which is great progress, but we've more to go.  With the community's help, I think we can easily get that down to 0 unverified/unattended bugs.  Wouldn't that be swell?  I think so.

The program begins now, and continues indefinitely, and I will be actively recruiting new members as we go along (if interested, leave comments below).  Note that this is not for the beginner on the Liferay Platform.  Good judgement, technical know-how, and some Liferay experience are all needed. I will also establish a landing page (much like BugSquad) along with a forum category so that the team can hold conversations there instead of email (and so everyone gets a chance to see what we're up to), and get to know each other.

[wasim shaikh]

Hi James,
This sounds good.
I am interested