Re: [gentoo-dev] !!!Really worried about ebuild updates!

[Richard Jackson]

On Sunday 21 April 2002 10:32 pm, George Shapovalov wrote:
> Couldn't be silent in the light of such plead :).
>
> On Sunday 21 April 2002 16:51, al3x payne wrote:
> > To whom it may concern:
> >
> > I'm really concerned about the number of ebuilds that are rapidly
> > becoming out of date.  I started using Gentoo, in part, because of the
>
> I bet you started with gentoo in the pre-1.0 era ;).
>
<snip buch of stuff>
>
> And, BTW the point made by Matthew Kennedy is an absolutely valid one! You
> will save developers time by providing them with patches where you can in
> addition to bug reports.
>
> George

I'm more than happy to help on updating older ebuilds. The problem I'm having 
is I can't seem to find them in bugzilla. So could some one point me in the 
right direction in a couple of things:
1) Some docs on using bugzilla from the users perspective not the implementors 
perspective.
2) How it is setup for gentoo. What is related to what so I can find what I 
want. 

I've tried searching for reported bugs but all I have been able to find is 
just a list of bug numbers and who it is assigned to but that does not really 
indicate what is being worked on and what is not. The only way I can find a 
description of a bug is to individulay read each bug. There has to be a 
better way to do this. 

Any ways once I figure bugzilla out I fully intend to start working on any 
ebuild issues I find. Both enhancements new packages and update types. 

Another question why doesn't bugzilla inform you when someone leaves a comment 
about a bug you filed? I filed a bug and I looked at it yesterday and found 
that someone had sugested a solution to the problem but I was not aware of it 
until I looked. I thought bugzilla would have sent me a email indicating the 
new comment so I don't have to go and check on it every day. 

Richard