Il giorno lun, 07/07/2008 alle 13.22 -0700, Bryce Harrington ha scritto: > > So I would encourage looking at ways we can help the average bug > reporter take on more of the work of troubleshooting the bugs they > find. After all, they by definition already have the necessary > equipment and environment for doing the testing. The first step is to > have good, detailed documentation to make the process as 'paint by > numbers' as possible for them
The first step is maybe to start taking in much higher account users contributions. My experience is that patches can stay in launchpad for months and in those cases it is entirely up to who contributed those to bother people until they ack a fix. I am not talking about my often blind one-liners but of many fixes I have actually seen and used. This is clearly due to lack of manpower to review patches, but this is a cat eating its tail: one user learns how to help because there are too few developers, and there are too few developers to take advantage of her work. Maybe a patch queue could be created, and some people allocated to work on patch review, merging and backporting (via the backport repository I mean). Publicizing this would encourage people to provide fixes (or at least, keeping patches in launchpad for months without looking at them will discourage people to contribute at all). Vincenzo -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
