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Ben de Groot <yngwin@g.o> said: |
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> > Its been pretty much dead. We need more developer involvement so users |
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> > can actually talk to them and help resolve issues. If we can't get |
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> > enough developers to participate then we should just stop trying to do |
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> > it instead of putting on such a poor showing. |
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> I would like to be involved but not in the current disorganized form. Our |
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> #gentoo-bugs channel topic still refers to the thoroughly outdated |
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> bugsday.g.o page, and I can't edit either of them. |
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I can modify the channel topic for you. I should have a login for the |
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bugsday.g.o page somewhere, if not...I'm sure we can get one. |
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> We need an easier interface to mark bugs to be tackled on bugday, |
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> and I like Sebastian's proposal for that. The idea for the bugsday.g.o |
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> page is good, but it needs to be brought up-to-date and accessible |
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> to all devs. Low barriers to participation and all that. And even devs |
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> who cannot take part on the day itself could participate by requesting |
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> certain bugs or issues to be tackled. |
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If you want to take the lead on this, come and talk to me on IRC and let |
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me know what ideas you have. I'd love to see it take off, but I don't |
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have the time to put towards it myself. |
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> Also, participating devs should get permission to commit easy fixes |
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> for packages they don't maintain (the other thread about commit |
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> policies is relevant here). Obviously issues that are more involved |
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> need to be passed on to the proper maintainers. |
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This is something we'll have to be careful of and discuss what types of |
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changes can be done. Not everything needs to be necessarily fixed in |
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the tree though, helping users get proper patches onto bugs can be just |
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as good and help get more useful contributions from those users in the |
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future. Consider it an opportunity to train possible new developers. |
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> I think if we can get a few devs and possibly some users together |
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> to organize this in a better way, this could be useful. But if things |
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> are to stay the way they are, then we better stop pretending. |
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I couldn't agree more. |
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Mark Loeser |
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email - halcy0n AT gentoo DOT org |
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email - mark AT halcy0n DOT com |
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web - http://www.halcy0n.com |
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