dormant bugs and our perception

[seth vidal]

On Wed, 2008-01-02 at 10:56 -0500, Tim Burke wrote:
> 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.
> >>     
> >
> > 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
> >
> >   
> Is some form of reward or point-based recognition likely to have much 
> impact?
> 

Can we get enough olpc's to give away as rewards? B/c if so we could
probably get people coming out of the woodwork. :)

-sv