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
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