Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede@xxxxxx> writes: > Hi all, > > I've just taken a good look at ImageMagick after being bitten by a bug > in convert, which I use in some of my spec files. > > The open bug list on ImageMagick is quite long (not really long though) > and some of those bug look like they are not too hard to fix. So it > looks like ImageMagick could use some love and attention. > > Now without doubt the same goes for many other core packages. I have the > feeling that with the ever growing and competent FE community we are > missing out on a chance here. We need some kinda mechanism for Core > package maintainers to mark bugs as > "easy fix" or > "fixing this should be doable, packaging" > "fixing this should be doable, C programming" > "fixing this should be doable, PERL" > etc. > > So that Core package maintainers who as we all know are a bit swamped > can mark bugs, which look like low priority but should be fixed never > the less, with one of these and FE contributers interested in helping > out can then find these bugs by these markers (blocker bugs / keywords?) > and write a patch. > > Preferably in the end some in the community should get direct access to > FC cvs / svn so that we can really _scale_ up the developer effort put > into core. > > Regards, > > Hans This is excellent idea. For example, the firefox miniicon[1] issue. It's an easy fix but probably takes 4-5 years before the developers address it. There are just too many bugs. Footnotes: [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=190188 -- Leon -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
