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From: "Marijn Schouten (hkBst)" <hkBst@g.o>
To: Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-project@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-project] Re: [gentoo-dev] maintainer-wanted bugcount
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 10:52:28
Message-Id: 474AA952.5050103@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-project] Re: [gentoo-dev] maintainer-wanted bugcount by Donnie Berkholz
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4 Donnie Berkholz wrote:
5 > On 10:46 Mon 26 Nov , Markus Ullmann wrote:
6 >> when taking a look at the open bug count for bugs assigned to
7 >> maintainer-wanted (2450 at the time of writing), it seems pretty obvious
8 >> that we really can't handle all of them, at least not without growing at
9 >> least two dozen devs to maintain it properly.
10 >>
11 >> As I highly doubt this will happen within a week, we have to make a
12 >> decision how to proceed with this stuff. So what options do we have?
13 >> These come to mind:
14 >>
15 >> a) WONTFIX them within 4 or 8 weeks without picking them up
16 >> b) reassign them to herds (some herds are on CC) and have them
17 >> respond withing 4-8 weeks and give a yey or boo.
18 >> c) let interested users move it to sunrise (some of them are there)
19 >> so that the ebuilds are at least at our QA level we maintain for
20 >> gentoo-x86 and are there to be picked up by devs if they're
21 >> interested
22 >
23 > What is bad about the current state of leaving maintainer-wanted bugs
24 > open? What problem is it causing that you want to fix?
25
26 ++, we should look at our prerecruitment process. Make it easier for
27 interested users to come into contact with the right herd/people, so that they
28 can be given simple tasks and guidance, learn and have fun.
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30 Marijn
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33 Marijn Schouten (hkBst), Gentoo Lisp project, Gentoo ML
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