Re: [gentoo-dev] ANNOUNCING: Great 2003 Gentoo Bug Hunt (with prizes)

[Ned Ludd]

Attn devs. Please I beg of you don't reassign security@ bugs to yourself
and close them but by all means please help get resolutions on them.

Why you ask yourself when you can get credit for closing bugs and some
free hardware. Well get over it security needs to override free hardware
and we/I need these closed while they are assigned to security@.

For those of you motivated by solely improving gentoo linux please take
a look at the following url
http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&field0-0-0=product&type0-0-0=substring&value0-0-0=Security&field0-0-1=component&type0-0-1=substring&value0-0-1=Security&field0-0-2=short_desc&type0-0-2=substring&value0-0-2=Security&field0-0-3=status_whiteboard&type0-0-3=substring&value0-0-3=Security

thanks..


On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 02:53, Daniel Robbins wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> (please direct all replies to gentoo-dev only (if appropriate;) I'm
> cross-posting this email so no one misses it.)
>
> Today (Oct 1 2003) marks the beginning of the Great 2003 Gentoo Bug
> Hunt.
>
> What makes this bug hunt so "Great," you ask? I don't know. Hmm. How
> about... bunches of free hardware to be awarded to the top bug
> squashers? Yep, sounds good.
>
> Here's how it works. Starting today and ending 23:59:59 Dec 31 2003 UTC,
> we will keep a tally of total number of bug reports closed by developers
> (actually, we'll run a mysql query in 3 months on Jan 1, but "keeping a
> tally" reads better.) The top bug squashers will take their pick from a
> cache of hardware components. The #1 squasher will get first pick, the
> number 2 squasher second pick, etc.
>
> The stash of things you can win will consist of new hardware components
> (unless there's a really exceptional used component that is available --
> the point is, all the stuff being raffled will be desirable, not
> someone's old burnt-out Pentium 133): stuff like motherboards, CPUs
> (maybe some mobo/cpu combos,) RAM, hard drives, video cards, etc. These
> items will be purchased in late December in order to maximize the
> up-to-dateness and yumminess of the to-be-awarded prizes.
>
> It gets better. Thanks to the success of the Gentoo Store, it looks like
> we may be able to do twice a year in 2004 at the very least.
>
> Want to get involved, squash some bugs and possibly get some free
> hardware? Here are some tips:
>
> 1. Be sure to participate in the upcoming Gentoo Bug Day on Sat, Oct 4
> 2003, and on the first Satuday of every month (Nov, Dec.)
>
> 2. Scour bugzilla for bugs that you can fix and/or close. To get credit
> for a bug, assign it to yourself before you close it. Don't close a bug
> unless you've really fixed the issue. Don't blow off or be mean to bug
> submitters just so that you can close a bug. Professionalism is
> important.
>
> 3. If you close dups, each dup you close *will* count. You're helping to
> keep bugzilla clean and usable.
>
> 4. For bugs that contain new ebuilds to be added to Portage, you can
> close the bug after the ebuild has been QA checked (by you) and added to
> the tree (to unstable.) Do not add new ebuilds blindly, and do not add
> new versions of existing packages without diffing with the most-recent
> version currently in the tree -- sometimes, people use version 1.2 to
> create 1.5, but we have 1.3 which includes an important build fix. And
> if you add 1.5 without looking at 1.3, you might accidentally omit the
> build fix which would be bad. (just a quick example.)
>
> 5. Respect herds and existing maintainers. Look at the Changelog and
> metadata.xml. If the last committer is not an active dev, it is
> certainly OK to take some initiative and close the bug yourself. But see
> if they're active first. If they are, you might want to get their input
> first (depending on the complexity of the package.) Beware of important
> libraries and system packages, which should be treated with the utmost
> care and deferred to the official maintainer(s) (according to
> metadata.xml or ChangeLog.)
>
> 6. Likewise, if you are a developer who has a lot of bugs assigned to
> you, but you haven't had the time to tackle your bugs, please *allow
> others to close them for you.* Smile when they do. Let others help you
> out.
>
> 7. Have fun! The time you spend hacking on Gentoo is appreciated, and I
> hope these prizes will help make bug squashing a bit more exciting...
> and rewarding.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Daniel
-- 
Ned Ludd <solar@g.o>
Gentoo Linux Developer