-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Apr 28, 2011, at 19:25, Niels Thykier wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > Hi
Hello everyone, > I figured a few somewhat unrelated things I would like to ask or bring > up, so here is a little "misc mail". I appreciate this type of occasional email. > > Next release > ============ > To my knowledge, we do not have one planned. Any suggestions? Are > there any bugs/changes that you would like to see fixed or implemented > in the next version? > > Personally, I got my eyes on #617991, #622888, #527026, #387166 and the > profile-proposal. Nevertheless, I doubt I will get all of them done in > the near future (except those that already have patches :D ). > > BTS cleaning > ============ > We are currently just a few bugs shy of 200 unfixed bugs and we have > (mostly) stayed below 200 since early January (if you do not count > pending bugs). While we have been able to keep the bug count down for > the past few months, we have accumulated nearly 60 new bugs since May > last year[BG]. > We have been doing a fair amount of work to keep this down, but > occasionally a bug or two slips through. Unfortunately, there are a lot > of bugs, which I am not certain how to deal with. In some cases there > is just the original report. That being said, I have also seen bugs > with a bit of dialogue, where the report just ends with a lack of > conclusion. > So I am hoping we could arrange some day to (re-)triage bugs or/and > simply just fix a lot of bugs. :D Perhaps as a part of DebConf11? I think a lintian bug squashing party at DebConf11 would be great. I'll try and poke at some of the bugs, that might ease some of my guilt. :} > > DebConf11 > ========= > Are there any plans for doing a Lintian BoF like last year or any other > Lintian event for that matter? The official call for events is closing > in 8th of May (less than 2 weeks from now) as far as I understand. > Unlike the ad-hoc BoF last year - We might actually get it on video. ;) > > Personally I plan to be present at DC11, but I have not bought a ticket yet. Same here. > Roll call > ========= > I have had a look at the list of current uploaders as well as the alioth > project page[AliPro] and from these I have compiled the following list > of people: > > * Adam D. Barratt > ~ Colin Watson > - - Frank Lichtenheld > - - Jeroen van Wolffelaar > - - Josip Rodin > - - Marc Brockschmidt > ~ Raphael Geissert > * Russ Allbery > - - Jordà Polo (alioth only/non-DD login) > * Niels Thykier > > I am wondering if this list is accurate. At least in the 4 months I > have been active with the Lintian team I only recall seeing 3 (excluding > myself) of these names in commit or on the mailing list, 4 if you count > changelog entries in 2.5.0~rc1 that where made before I joined. > Of course, there are many ways to be an active and valuable member of > any project without having committed any changes for a while (or even > ever), so the above is a mere estimate for whether people are active > (and it does not account for long term vacation/leaves either). > So, there is a "*" in front of the name if I have seen said person > "recently" (as defined above) or via IRC debated a Lintian > change/proposal/bug/etc. with said person. Then there is a "~" if the > person declared him-/herself "busy/focused elsewhere" (with no proof to > being active again). Finally there is "-" for "I do not know about said > person". > > If you got a symbol you do not feel matches your current > status/involvement with the project, please do speak up. My goal is to > get an idea of who are available and who I can ping/nag/etc. if I need > feedback/suggestion/a 2nd opinion on a proposal/bug report. Perhaps this list can serve as a general place to ping and raise bug issues? It can possibly be a catalyst to get long term lurkers such as myself more involved. Regards, Jeremiah -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Darwin) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJNuognAAoJEPoEpn8G2KIr4LcP+wb5seAUrpeAwc/qwjdXJRBI 3X92dHgLcpyZ5NoIF/ertPlgx2QXzdQKDVTTbg+AK24bERU4K33kavaOuCyAEXxu 4afzP5D8K2IBGoa6KpkQp3O1DQwO0KQl9s6m6TQ/7OpHqHQ651N/Bq/hB3xFKU+3 ChgvBuDi0w8i4x53qgwt//TyWwlSEvfpbq1tXVptmNOoymdTyA+JUC5QdV3ewbkA FpcDbL6yfPS1rf5M0a9ophDSg/JLZu/Ht41CdDvcKWsOS++dhWixJWB9nvJhOJDj FXjVMncjqvGOHwMitIJlTDd204zAZ2X4lzem80oT7wW737CwPTETAZHQMozOfXBN GMrf82vRx+Ep94Jdg4OPBRcOgP/we/ji6AnUDn05Du6+D0yvaI8s3L/GqT9VZqz1 UkpO9WUdyP+zRJ8bRsnlGtHlTmylo/YLxrRKP89Nzn1aLAvGC8ZrF9dM3muQ1YeR rYyZZCtOkOSfE4vTD6hJV50Sb6/tFLBrkEvQ/jCXCl/EmPvFCYJUJhbqDTHx4uhi Wi8hZxzsEFBIZJCWp26JsRjRqmdiLO/w0IGrBOiFyng2MsNyaEODtSV7RK2Ii4Sa epLm6qZfxL0dzvyoVvdfxl6Ckd9wfzsQZhUORcvkiWTRKiE033sHDTGERsG2NHSX +cFraWPn7epcF4A9gQxk =P/Ek -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
