Re: Draining the Swamp: A Technical User's Experience

[Jim Gettys <Jim Gettys compaq com>]

There was a volunteer on the mailing list last week to set up bugzilla, and I
forwarded it to David Dawes, but have had heard nothing back on that volunteer.

Bug tracking systems only work if the people involved want to use them;
I don't have a feeling yet for whether the XFree86 core team (of which
I'm not a member, btw) is interested.  Certainly, experience setting
up bugzilla would help (I think the main XFree servers run FreeBSD,
btw), as it would remove one of the common objections (getting it
installed and configured is a significant amount of work).

I'll check with David and get back to you.

Keith Packard and I have recently made a project list of things that need
work, much larger than just the swamp items; I should try to get it up on a
web site sometime soon...
                            - Jim

> Sender: foundation-list-admin gnome org
> From: Jeff Waugh <jdub perkypants org>
> Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 11:54:48 +1000
> To: foundation-list gnome org
> Subject: Re: Draining the Swamp: A Technical User's Experience
> -----
> <quote who="Jim Gettys">
>
> > Help would greatly be appreciated on the topics above.  Unfortunately, the
> > XFree86 core people are so used to this mess that they are not highly
> > motivated on the projects above.  After all, they understand how the silly
> > configuration works...  But I don't think there is any problems with
> > volunteers helping with the above list.
>
> Is there a bug tracking system for XFree86? Would help with setting one up
> be appreciated?
>
> [ Maybe it would be fun to have a "GNOME's Top Ten X Bugs or Missing
> Features" (where X can be any project, not just... well... X). Then we can
> point GNOME hackers - and others! - to swamp-draining bugs they can fix that
> will benefit everyone. ]
>
> - Jeff
>
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