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Hans de Graaff wrote: |
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> On Mon, 2007-11-26 at 14:12 +0100, Markus Ullmann wrote: |
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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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That's cool for the devs; I'm wondering if we can't bring users into helping |
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with bugs a bit more. I appreciate that there is a link to bug-wranglers, |
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but something like this is much more conducive to getting user help for the |
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stuff that clogs up bugzilla: |
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http://live.gnome.org/Bugsquad |
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In particular, the triage guide at: |
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http://live.gnome.org/Bugsquad/TriageGuide |
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..seems like a really simple (in the sense that it's just a webpage) way to |
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get users to be a help rather than a hindrance. |
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A link to: http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html would seem |
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useful as well. |
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How would the bug-wranglers feel about this; *plop* ? |
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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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Makes sense; maybe if a dev asked on the forums (Gentoo-chat would be best |
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imo) for users to vote on maintainer-wanted stuff they'd like? It's not a |
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guarantee that they'll get in, but at least it helps with this |
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housecleaning, gives some data for stuff that people can put into sunrise |
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if they want to start working on ebuilds, and lets users know they're |
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valued. We certainly value the work you do :-) |
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"If you treat your beta-testers as if they're your most valuable resource, |
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then they will respond by becoming your most valuable resource." |
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http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/24325 |
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