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On Mon, 2007-11-26 at 14:12 +0100, Markus Ullmann wrote: |
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> Donnie Berkholz schrieb: |
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> > What is bad about the current state of leaving maintainer-wanted bugs |
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> > open? What problem is it causing that you want to fix? |
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> Currently a bunch of them are either |
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> - dead upstream for quite some time |
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> - don't work with a current system |
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As mentioned these should be closed as WONTFIX or CANTFIX. We'd need |
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people to go through bugzilla and have a look at all maintainer-wanted |
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bugs that are, say, more than one year old. |
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I actually did look into this briefly a few months ago, based on the |
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same observation of so many maintainer-wanted bugs open. Based on |
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looking at some random bugs my observation was that most upstreams still |
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exist. Whether or not they are dead is another matter that requires some |
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more time, as does assessing if the package is still relevant for the |
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tree. |
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I'd be happy to revisit this and start combing bugzilla in a bit more |
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structured way and close maintainer-wanted bugs when applicable, but it |
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will be slow going. Any other volunteers? I imagine a quick write-up of |
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goals and "rules" a la treecleaners should be enough to kick this off. |
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Voting could really help to bring maintainer-wanted bugs to our |
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attention. Currently only 3 bugs have any votes for them. If more people |
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would dish out their votes it would become more clear which packages |
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would please a large number of people and there may be more incentive |
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for maintainers to take them. |
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Kind regards, |
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Hans |