Help me triage

[Jerry Amundson]

On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 10:55 PM, Jon Stanley <jonstanley at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 11:09 PM, Steve Grubb <sgrubb at redhat.com> wrote:
>
>> The problem is that RHEL and Fedora bugs are in the same bugzilla view. I
>> sometimes have a lot of bugs in my view. I use the NEW state to know which one
>> I have not started working on vs the ones that I am interacting with the
>> reporter. If there was another state, in-work, I could better tell what is in
>> flight and what has not been touched by me and you could do your triaging
>> without causing me to lose my own state. :)
>
> I think that this is a reasonable request. You have to understand that
> due to the packages that Steve maintains, they can get quite a few bug
> reports. If Steve went through his day managing mail from Bugzilla, no
> work would actually ever get done :) It's even worse for the kernel
> guys.

Life's a bitch. Deal.

> Here is Steve's current list that I can see - note that since he
> maintains many security-sensitive packages (that is after all his job
> :) ), there are likely bugs that I can't see, even doubly so since he
> maintains some of the same packages for RHEL, most of which are marked
> private in my experience even if they aren't (a pet peeve of mine, but
> that's for another thread.....)
>
> http://tinyurl.com/45nsdx
>
> As you can see, quite a workload to manage :)

Rubbish. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=164833 hasn't
been touched in over 3 years. (yes, I just keyed on the lowest number
I saw at a glance)
If bugzilla doesn't fit to manage a todo list, use PostIt(tm) notes
for pete's sake.

Sorry to be so blunt, but for the love Fedora I've been downloading,
testing, modifying, re-testing, re-downloading, burning, installing
and so on for years, and so now for three months I've been a member of
this list thinking, "I know I can help. I have the experience,
know-how, and hardware."
Yet, in those few months, what I encounter most consistently are walls
that *prevent* us from helping. That's frustrating. A developer with
"quite a workload"? Show me one who doesn't....

jerry

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