Re: Assigned responsibilites, again

[Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org>]

Le jeudi 16 juin 2005 �2:48 -0600, Elijah Newren a �it :
> On 6/16/05, Vincent Untz <vuntz gnome org> wrote:
> > Le jeudi 16 juin 2005 �1:03 -0600, Elijah Newren a �it :
> 
> > > Ideas of things "patch nagging" could mean here, but I'd like
> > > ideas/suggestions: (a) periodic public reminder of general patch
> > > state, pointing out those who have done well recently, (b) checking
> > > for modules that may have become unmaintained so that the release team
> > > and development community can be aware of possible issues, (c)
> > > pointing out any longstanding accepted-commit_now or
> > > accepted-commit_after_freeze patches, (d) a call for action to assist
> > > maintainers with bugsquad like pseudo-review of patches ("does it
> > > still apply?", "does it appear to follow coding guidelines?", "are
> > > there conflicting patches elsewhere in bugzilla?", "does it
> > > work-for-me?", "does it appear to be valgrind-clean?", "are there any
> > > problems obvious to a non-maintainer?")--i.e. something that could be
> > > a big enough task to encompass a lot of the bugsquad or gnome-love or
> > > be a new project altogether, (e) something else entirely?
> > 
> > All these ideas are great :-) So I vote for all of them ;-)
> 
> Including the "something else entirely"?  ;-)

"Something else", yes. But not "entirely" ;-)

> > But I guess it depends on the time people will have to do this.
> 
> (a)-(c) shouldn't be too hard to do; one just needs to check the
> various patch reports in bugzilla occasionally.  I've been thinking
> about (d), especially since it would teach a lot of skills many
> gnome-love people would need and would provide a long renewable supply
> of tasks for new people to do and thus probably help increase the
> number of developers for various modules.  But there's a big time
> issue involved...

(d) is really something we need to do. Bug days were so great. Bringing
them back would be nice. I'll send a mail to the bugsquad about this.

Vincent

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