The bug squad is hiring!

Rahul sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Tue Aug 15 14:33:33 UTC 2006


Hans de Goede wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I've been thinking about this some more and although I still firmly
> believe in the basic ideas behind this (taping into the community to
> help fix high impact / annoying bugs), I don't feel like pulling the
> kart / spearheading the effort. so I won't be adding something to the
> wiki, mainly because I have the feeling it won't be used much as the
> response to this thread sofar has been minimal.
> 
> Maybe I also have been going the wrong way, because I believe that in
> order for the community to help fix bugs, the package maintainer who
> could use / wants / needs the communities help should get involved.
> Maybe he should not only be involved but he should be taking the
> initiative to ask the community for help, that way the volunteers have
> guarantees that their work will get integrated. Currently my experience
> with this has been a bit frustrating. In order to be able to help in
> many cases I will need some pointers (general direction) where to look.
> And sofar replies to requests for such general directions have been absent.

If there was any questions, I left unanswered let me know.

> 
> In the one case where I did manage to locate and fix a bug after a
> couple of hours of debugging, the fix for this hasn't been integrated
> yet (its a very simple 1 line fix which is obviously correct).
> 
> So to make a long story short I will still be trying to help out by
> cherry picking some bugs and trying to fix this, but I hereby cease any
> activities to try and create a coordinated community bug squashing effort.
> 
> Still any Core developers overwelmed with bugs who need a hand feel free
> to ask me, and I think / guess you should feel free to ask the community
> in general, that might be the better way to get the community involved
> in helping with the enormous amount of bugs (of much varying severity).
> 

I would agree that we need a few more people involved in the effort and 
the results can be less than rewarding on many occasions. Maybe Will 
Woods can lead this effort.


Rahul




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