https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=206360
--- Comment #5 from Terry Kennedy <terry-free...@glaver.org> --- (In reply to Mark Linimon from comment #4) The snark version: I don't think anyone could be less motivated. The polite version: I agree that there are lots of bugs that should be triaged and assigned that aren't getting handled due to a lack of resources. A "Waiting" or some similar state name in Bugzilla to indicated that a bug report has been reviewed, but there are no resources to address it might also be useful, particularly for "affects only me" bugs. TL;DR: If the FreeBSD project wants help, ask. When I read the quarterly status reports, I notice the number of open PRs for base and ports. If that section asked for help in triaging bugs, I would have volunteered. As an example, volunteers could go through open bug reports and just look for ones filed on (now) unsupported FreeBSD versions, and reply to those PRs with "Is anyone still encountering this issue on a currently-supported version of FreeBSD?". I expect that there will be some "no" answers as well as "nobody home" after (for example) 60 days and the bugs can be closed with "Overcome by events". This should drop the number of open PRs by a good amount, with almost no work by any committer beyond what's mentioned in the next paragraph. That work doesn't require any privileges beyond just having a Bugzilla account as long as there's someone or an alias who can take a list of PR numbers generated by this volunteer work and close bugs as appropriate. That probably involves some additional work by the person with modify privileges in Bugzilla to make sure the bugs requesting to be closed are actually the right ones (in case of typos). That should just involve looking at the most recent comment posted by either the submitter or the volunteer reviewer. In the case of this particular PR, I looked at the code before I submitted the PR, and at the time I couldn't see anything that I was comfortable submitting a patch for. In some other bugs, I've submitted patches, most of which have been accepted. Lastly, thanks for responding. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
