dormant bugs and our perception

[Tim Burke]

Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay wrote:
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> Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote:
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>> Cross-posting to the Fedora advisory board list.  Our inability to
>> create and nurture a bug triage community continues to be painful, and
>> our current QA resources within Red Hat continue to be (necessarily)
>> technically focused rather than community focused.  This is a problem we
>> need to solve.
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> A QA/BugTriage community or lack thereof is a situation for a large
> number of FOSS Projects. Which is kind of strange since it provides a
> relatively practical means to learn about the internals as well as earn
> developer respect. Perhaps projects along the line of GHOP (not that
> specifically, but like that) which allow putting such building blocks of
> knowledge as means to contribute would help. Presentations/workshops
> specifically don't - Rahul / mether has been doing them on and off but
> without much uptake
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Is some form of reward or point-based recognition likely to have much 
impact?