Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What might work quite well, however, is to have "bug janitors" (a la > kernel janitors) who look at new bugs that have received no attention > for, say, two weeks. If a bug gets reported against a package, and the > package maintainer doesn't react to it, then the janitors can look at > it. They could look at old bugs in general, of course.
I think this is a wonderful idea. I would, for example, be happy to feed the coordinators of such an effort information about one of my packages and how a bug triage could be approached and then they could mentor enthusiastic but untrained volunteers in how to tackle the bugs. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
