Bug#248397: Subject: Re: GRUB 2 RFH
Hello Colin, Today i spent the day going through 80% of the bugs in grub2. Find ones that are duplicate and ones that can be closed. I think you need a bit of help closing of bugs that have been solved. Brings down the number and help everyone focus. I have emailed pkg-grub-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org asking them to close a certain amount of bugs since they are answered. Also started investigating a few bugs. Do not know the code base yet but some of the bugs seem like common sense. Wiki might help with how the build works. MIght be able to bring the bugs down from 280 to 240 with some of the work i done today. -- Regards Martin Naughton On Sat, Dec 29, 2012 at 4:03 PM, Martin Naughton wrote: > Hello Colin, > Been looking at the grub2 for debian aswell. Is the help > required with grub 1 or grub 2? i thought grub 1 was being dropped? > > http://packages.qa.debian.org/g/grub2.html > > > -- > Regards > Martin Naughton
Bug#248397: Subject: Re: GRUB 2 RFH
Hello Colin, Been looking at the grub2 for debian aswell. Is the help required with grub 1 or grub 2? i thought grub 1 was being dropped? http://packages.qa.debian.org/g/grub2.html -- Regards Martin Naughton
Bug#248397: Subject: Re: GRUB 2 RFH
Hello Colin, Thanks. Will start looking in to the bugs. Started looking at the grub webpage. Will try out a few bugs fixes. http://packages.qa.debian.org/g/grub.html A wiki would be really handy on how to setup. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_GRUB -- Regards Martin Naughton On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 7:10 AM, Colin Watson wrote: > On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 11:53:54AM +, Martin Naughton wrote: > > Do you still need help. Me and another guy are interested > > in helping. Can you indicate if you still need help. We are not DD yet > but > > we are learning. We can help with the testing of grub and fix bugs while > > you can develop the application. If not help is needed can the ticket be > > closed? > > GRUB package maintenance in Debian still certainly needs help; while > we've generally managed to keep one primary maintainer (I came along > well after this RFH was initially filed, and have been the most active > on the team for the last couple of years), Debian really ought to be > able to manage a team with a higher bus factor for its principal boot > loader. We suffered from that this summer when I had some temporary > motivation problems; if another developer had been sufficiently active > and able to step in it's possible that we'd be shipping wheezy with GRUB > 2.00 rather than 1.99. > > You can certainly help out with testing and fixing individual bugs > without having to ask in advance (as long as you don't actually close > bugs without asking) - just mail the BTS as appropriate. I do think we > need more DDs involved, though. > > Jonathan is right that we need some kind of wiki documentation here. > I'll see if I can carve out some time soon to write up a skeleton of > such a thing ... > > -- > Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] >
Bug#248397: Subject: Re: GRUB 2 RFH
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 11:53:54AM +, Martin Naughton wrote: > Do you still need help. Me and another guy are interested > in helping. Can you indicate if you still need help. We are not DD yet but > we are learning. We can help with the testing of grub and fix bugs while > you can develop the application. If not help is needed can the ticket be > closed? GRUB package maintenance in Debian still certainly needs help; while we've generally managed to keep one primary maintainer (I came along well after this RFH was initially filed, and have been the most active on the team for the last couple of years), Debian really ought to be able to manage a team with a higher bus factor for its principal boot loader. We suffered from that this summer when I had some temporary motivation problems; if another developer had been sufficiently active and able to step in it's possible that we'd be shipping wheezy with GRUB 2.00 rather than 1.99. You can certainly help out with testing and fixing individual bugs without having to ask in advance (as long as you don't actually close bugs without asking) - just mail the BTS as appropriate. I do think we need more DDs involved, though. Jonathan is right that we need some kind of wiki documentation here. I'll see if I can carve out some time soon to write up a skeleton of such a thing ... -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@debian.org] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#248397: Subject: Re: GRUB 2 RFH
Hello Grub, Do you still need help. Me and another guy are interested in helping. Can you indicate if you still need help. We are not DD yet but we are learning. We can help with the testing of grub and fix bugs while you can develop the application. If not help is needed can the ticket be closed? http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=248397 -- Regards Martin Naughton
