closing out old bugs of unmaintained releases

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

On 09.01.2008 09:32, Christian Iseli wrote:
>> We have a lot of non-hackers that maintain packages in Fedora and it
>> worked well so far and that in parts made Fedora what it is today.
>> What IMHO would be good instead of what you outline: groups of people
>> (SIGs) a package-monkey can contact if he needs help to fix or improve
>> something needs programming skills.
> What I'd like to see is:
> - emergence of a group of able programmers willing to help squashing
> bugs in other maintainers' packages, and an easy way to alert this
> group of people to a list of bugs to squash
> - education of the non-programmers packagers that they can and *should*
> seek help from the above group when needed, and how to go about this
> process

That's what I meant in better words ;)

CU
knurd