On Thu, 2007-03-22 at 15:25 -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 01:06:41PM -0600, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> If this is a weekly thing I would also like to see trying to help out
> some of the packages that just have way too many bugs for any single
> mantainer to deal with... rpm, kernel, etc.
I've been toying with the idea of a 'kernel bug day' thing for a while.
Whilst a lot of those bugs are really nasty horrible bugs that you
really need to understand kernel code for, there's quite a bit of
grunt work that I'd be happy to farm out to eager helpers.
Things like ..
* marking bugs that have patches in them more prominently,
* adding bugs to the 'meta' bugs (cf, the alias 'FCMETA_ACPI'),
* making sure relevant people are cc'd/assigned.
* going through old bugs and asking reporters to retest with
the latest updates
* closing out bugs that have been in NEEDINFO forever.
* forwarding bug reports upstream to linux-kernel / maintainers /
kernel.org
bugzilla.
It's real painstaking work to do that sort of thing, and I'd rather
be actually fixing bugs.
We've got plenty of eager helpers (myself included!). We'll just need
some guidance to know which bucket to put stuff in.
I'm on pseudo-vacation next week, but I think we should give
this a shot when I get back.
Absolutely! I dunno which time zone you're in at the moment, so pick a
time next Friday (or whatever day works for you). We'll get the word
out. Hopefully we can do this regularly.
-w