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From: Mark Loeser <halcy0n@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Bug wrangling
Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 14:34:12
Message-Id: 20080512143305.GA24431@aerie.halcy0n.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Bug wrangling by Denis Dupeyron
1 Denis Dupeyron <calchan@g.o> said:
2 > That he comes back or not is of no importance to bug wrangling. Or at
3 > least it should be. It is a mistake to solely rely on a developer for
4 > such a task. Developers come and go without warning, he just proved
5 > it, so ideally we need a team of 2 or 3 to handle bug wrangling. Also,
6 > one single developer handling this puts him/her in such a prominent
7 > position that it is bad for him/her, our users, other developers and
8 > the entire project. We had too many examples of this.
9
10 Making an actual bug wrangling team (subproject of QA) is something
11 I've been toying around with in my head. I'd love to get an actual team
12 set up so we can encourage users to help us get the information we need
13 in bugs so it is less work for us. Several other distributions have
14 such projects, so we have something we can use as a template.
15
16 --
17 Mark Loeser
18 email - halcy0n AT gentoo DOT org
19 email - mark AT halcy0n DOT com
20 web - http://www.halcy0n.com

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