On Dec 12, 2007 9:46 PM, Dan Mick <dan.mick at sun.com> wrote: > > > No bug, whether big or small, should be ignored simply because it > > isn't deemed important enough. > > gotta disagree on principle. Bug triage is a fact of life. > > yes, we want to encourage external contributions; no, we don't want to spend > all > our time on nits just because they exist. > > I'm sure Sun could be doing better at prioritizing sponsorship requests, but > the > answer is not "do them all, big and small". >
The problem is that most developers have the expectation that if they take the time to resolve an issue that their fix will be integrated. No matter how big or small a patch to the Linux kernel is, if I contribute it, and it is deemed a correct fix, it's going to get integrated. Triaging bugs for the purposes of determining what should be worked on is one thing; triaging bugs determining what gets added is another. As I said before, the real solution is to eliminate the need for Sun to do so much work. If Sun doesn't get out of the rut of being responsible for every bug fix and this triage mess, they are never going to benefit from external contributors in the way that open source projects typically do. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so." - Robert Orben
