Hi, If you read this mailing list you are probably aware of the Bug Squad, a small team within the Lilypond project. Their role is described in [1] as follows:
"The Bug Squad is mainly composed of non-programmers – their job is to organize issues, not solve them. Their duties include removing false bug reports, ensuring that any real bug report contains enough information for developers, and checking that a developer’s fix actually resolves the problem." Right now the bug squad is Eluze, Marek Klein, Ralph Palmer and I with help from other contributors including Phil Holmes, David Kastrup, Keith O'Hara, James, Graham Percival, Reinhold Kainhofer. As stated here [2] we aim to respond to bug reports within four days. Graham Percival wrote some scripts [3] to analyse the response time performance of the bug squad and I have just run them for the last calendar quarter of 2012. Response category Number % of total ------------------------------------------ Less than 24 hours 77 67.54% 24 to 48 hours 18 15.79% More than 48 hours 12 10.53% Never replied 7 6.14% As you can see, we responded to over 83% of the reports in 48 hours or less, which I think is pretty good. "Never replied" includes some administrative emails (that need no reply), so it's not always a bad thing to have some emails in this category. Just email me if you would like a copy of the full report. If you would like to help us improve on this by joining the bug squad, please get in touch. I have one new applicant-in-waiting, Joe Wakeling, but we could use one or two more! Cheers, Colin. [1] http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.17/Documentation/contributor/introduction-to-issues [2] http://lilypond.org/bug-reports.html [3] https://github.com/gperciva/lilypond-extra/tree/master/bug-squad -- Colin Hall Bug Meister _______________________________________________ bug-lilypond mailing list bug-lilypond@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-lilypond
