On Thu, 2007-03-22 at 15:25 -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> 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!).
Count me in too. I already try to do whatever I can, sweeping through
open bugs from time to time, but would love to do more.
--
Jarod Wilson
jwilson(a)redhat.com