Gervase Markham wrote:
>> I deserved that one, I suppose :-) Ok, one of the reason I have not 
>> yet gone a-hacking on the code is that I'm not quite sure of the 
>> procedure. So, I found a bug in the above category,  50630, that looks 
>> like good fun.
>>
>> Now I'm supposed to:
>> 1) Assign the bug to me, that is [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 
> Presuming no-one else is working on it (check the comments and bug 
> activity to see if there are any signs of life.)

This is the hardest part. Despite the helpwanted keyword this bug was 
actually being worked on, it appears. Only the only way I could see this 
was that when I took the bug, the owner complained (as he should, of 
course). Quite frustrating. I'm not exactly keen to work on bugs that 
has been dead for several semesters... their age would indicate that 
this bug is controversial, difficult to fix, no longer relevant or 
something.

> 
> If that document doesn't explain the procedure clearly enough (it 
> should) please let me know which bits are unclear.

It lacks a section: How to find bugs that can be "safely" taken. E.g. 
from other parts of the mozilla.org's homepage (the QA section) I had 
come under the impression that the "help-wanted" bugs was "free" --- and 
this was not the case :-( My ears are still burning... my apologies, yet 
again, to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for doing this.

Besides this, if the procedure listed could include the full lifecycle 
of bug-fixing, this would be great. Currently, it only does from "ok, 
I've fixed the bug. Now what?" (Except for the excellent section on code 
guidelines, etc. of course).

regards, Esben

P.s: Thanks for your time!


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