On 2/11/06, Lex Hider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2006-02-11 at 19:49 -0700, Elijah Newren wrote: > > I consider the new vs. unconfirmed > > suckiness that currently exists to be a temporary situation. One that > > has lasted many years, granted, but one that will be killed sooner or > > later. And then my long diatribe on not confirming bugs will be > > totally obsolete and wrong. At long last. :-) > > If that is the case, I find it surprising that you would discourage new > bugsquad members from confirming bugs.
Why? If it gets fixed in a way that I'd like (e.g. developers don't get emails until either a certain amount of time has past or the bugsquad has handled them first to ensure that they're not dupes or obviously need more info), then confirming by the bugsquad would make total sense. Until then, I'm still of the opinion that it does more harm than good. > > It also depends on the ability to have developers not be emailed for > > unconfirmed bugs, an ability we don't yet have. I think that's the > > biggest obstacle. I think we have sufficient manpower to push bugs > > from unconfirmed to new in such a case where developers don't see the > > unconfirmed bugs. > > I'd like to help if I can. Install gnome bugzilla locally (basically, you follow the instructions for setting up the real bugzilla, but you use a cvs checkout of the bugzilla-newer module rather than a tarball of upstream bugzilla or a cvs checkout of upstream bugzilla). I had a more detailed guide to this once that wouldn't make you try to read & follow & modify upstream instructions all at the same time, but when I went to look for it a couple months ago it appears to have been lost forever. :( So sorry for the lame instruction but they'll have to do. Anyway, after you get it up and running, start patching it and submitting the patches. If you have questions on this, you can ask on IRC or bugzilla-devel-list. :) Cheers, Elijah _______________________________________________ Gnome-bugsquad mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-bugsquad
