On Thu, 21 Feb 2008, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Thu, 21 Feb 2008, David Nusinow wrote: > > We could deal with this problem if we were better at training and > > recruiting people to work on such things. We've been lucky in the > > XSF lately in getting enough hands to get the work done, but I don't > > think there's any clear forumla from our experience that could guide > > other teams to do the same. I'd love to find one though. If we could > > do a better job of steering people towards these important packages > > rather than their vanity package of the hour, I think everyone would > > benefit. > > I think it's going to be in our long term interest to identify some > more of these packages that could use help and figure out what changes > (if any) need to be made to the BTS, documentation for those packages, > and anything else to help new people get into triaging these bugs.
My contribution of the day to this problem has been to add a link in the PTS page pointing to a graphic of the evolution of number of bugs (in the top right with bug stats). See for example: http://packages.qa.debian.org/d/dpkg.html http://people.debian.org/~glandium/bts/d/dpkg.png http://people.debian.org/~glandium/bts/o/openoffice.org.png http://people.debian.org/~glandium/bts/l/linux-2.6.png People who do bug triaging like to see the graph go down. Hopefully seeing the chart in the first place will make it clear to potential contributors that there's a place for their work. :-) Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Le best-seller français mis à jour pour Debian Etch : http://www.ouaza.com/livre/admin-debian/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
