Re: Attempted summary and thoughts (was Re: On maintainers not responding to bugs)

2007-03-27 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 10:47:38AM +, Sune Vuorela wrote: > On 2007-03-27, Roberto C Sánchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In fact, yes. More so, even. The higher the bug count the *greater* > > the reward for triaging everything properly. It helps to prevent > > getting mired in a sea of

Re: Attempted summary and thoughts (was Re: On maintainers not responding to bugs)

2007-03-27 Thread Sune Vuorela
On 2007-03-27, Roberto C Sánchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In fact, yes. More so, even. The higher the bug count the *greater* > the reward for triaging everything properly. It helps to prevent > getting mired in a sea of bugs. We still miss around 600 bugs in our backlog: http://users.alio

Re: Attempted summary and thoughts (was Re: On maintainers not responding to bugs)

2007-03-27 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 08:12:07AM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 09:38:24PM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > People should be given assistance and encouragement in > > > doing it. I actually like doing it, but I have unfortunately relatively > > >

Re: Attempted summary and thoughts (was Re: On maintainers not responding to bugs)

2007-03-27 Thread Sam Hocevar
On Tue, Mar 27, 2007, Mike Hommey wrote: > > I like doing bug triage as well. I guess it is because I am a neat > > freak and anal about organization. > > Would you still like it if the bug count for one package would number in > hundreds ? It's easy to have a huge backlog. I believe a more

Re: Attempted summary and thoughts (was Re: On maintainers not responding to bugs)

2007-03-26 Thread Mike Hommey
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 09:38:24PM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > People should be given assistance and encouragement in > > doing it. I actually like doing it, but I have unfortunately relatively > > little time (sick family members). > > > I like doing bug triage as w

Re: Attempted summary and thoughts (was Re: On maintainers not responding to bugs)

2007-03-26 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Roberto C. Sánchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Out of curiousity, what is the algorithm for determining whether a patch >has been reviewed? If it is not an algorithm, per se, then what is the >heuristic? If the maintainer has sent a message to the bug trail mentioning the patch sometime after th

Re: Attempted summary and thoughts (was Re: On maintainers not responding to bugs)

2007-03-26 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 09:12:32PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > > > If a package has a bug with a *patch* attached, where the *patch* has not > been reviewed on by the maintainer(s) within six months, the package will > be orphaned immediately; the maintainer will not be allowed to adopt

Attempted summary and thoughts (was Re: On maintainers not responding to bugs)

2007-03-26 Thread Nathanael Nerode
I've been reading the discussion and trying to thresh something out of it. Four points and one proposal. Point 1. --- Contrary to some assumptions, answering "I got your bug report but I can't deal with it right now" is *very* useful, particularly in encouraging people to help. I've reported