> Pointing someone at a package they're not interested in won't work, either, > though. Dunno what the solution is, but surely every prospective DD can > find enough packages they use on a regular basis and find bugs in them?
I currently have 1104 packages installed maybe 15 on which I'm even somewhat passionate about. It doesn't mean that if an "invisible" packages like bash, bison, some libraries etc. fail, I wouldn't care. Since stable base packages (in addition to effective developmen tools!) are the most important factor in making a stable OS, it would be good to have more work concentrated on them. Maybe some semi-automatic (eh..) list of priorized packages would help? Something like: package-use-frequency * (num_of_grave_bugs*1.0 + num_of_critical_bugs*0.5) * number of dependencies/2 + subjective_bias_from_DD_vote_or_something - Jarno
