On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 14:32 -0400, Jon Stanley wrote: > Hear ye, hear ye! At the BugZappers meeting that occurred today, > March 12, 2008, two proposals for dealing with the backlog of bugs, > both now and in the future, were discussed. It was also discussed > that this would be another useful forum to solicit feedback from. Our > goal here is not to disenfranchise bug reporters or cause them more > work. Instead, it is designed to introduce predictability into the > lifecycle of a bug. This is part of the relaunch of the BugZappers > initiative, which I had announced yesterday. It's important to note, > that while you're just now starting to see stuff from us visibly, this > has been several months in the making and thought through very > thoroughly. > > These proposals will be presented at the meeting of the Fedora > Engineering Steering Committee (FESCo) tomorrow, with a vote to be > rendered on 2008-03-20 if necessary, and execution to begin shortly > thereafter. Please feel free to make comments by replying to this > e-mail or editing the wiki. We also hang out in #fedora-qa on > freenode (my nick is jds2001), and our mailing list is > fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx for other ways to make contact with us. > > The purpose of the meeting today was to solicit input on proposals for > dealing with the current unmanageable backlog of bugs. Simple. slow down the cycle of new releases until the previous one is stable, while new updates arrive to be tested, as usual. Everyone on the list freely contributes what they know, it just takes awhile to catch up to you guys and gals. If at all possible, get the real Java installed if the new licensing scheme is finally in place. That alone might quell some of the bugs related to Java. My two cents, Ric -- ================================================ My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar http://www.wayward4now.net <---down4now too ================================================ -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
