Re: Work-needing packages report for Dec 9, 2011

2011-12-13 Thread David Prévot
Le 13/12/2011 06:51, Tollef Fog Heen a écrit : > ]] (Marco d'Itri) > >> On Dec 09, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: >> >>> Maybe we should consider closing those bugs after a while? While I'm >> >> Maybe we should ask the maintainers? >> e.g. ppp still needs a lot of help. > > I don't doubt that the pac

Re: Work-needing packages report for Dec 9, 2011

2011-12-13 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] (Marco d'Itri) > On Dec 09, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > > Maybe we should consider closing those bugs after a while? While I'm > > Maybe we should ask the maintainers? > e.g. ppp still needs a lot of help. I don't doubt that the packages might still need help, but I don't think an RFH is g

Re: Work-needing packages report for Dec 9, 2011

2011-12-11 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Russ Allbery writes: > Goswin von Brederlow writes: > >> But there is no way to find bugs taged help given a skillset. So unless >> you specifically think "Lets fix something in grub today" and go looking >> for grub bugs tagged help you never find them. > >> Say today you want to write some man

Re: Work-needing packages report for Dec 9, 2011

2011-12-10 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Dec 09, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > Maybe we should consider closing those bugs after a while? While I'm Maybe we should ask the maintainers? e.g. ppp still needs a lot of help. -- ciao, Marco signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Work-needing packages report for Dec 9, 2011

2011-12-10 Thread Russ Allbery
Goswin von Brederlow writes: > But there is no way to find bugs taged help given a skillset. So unless > you specifically think "Lets fix something in grub today" and go looking > for grub bugs tagged help you never find them. > Say today you want to write some manpages. How do you find a RFH bu

Re: Work-needing packages report for Dec 9, 2011

2011-12-10 Thread Paul Wise
On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 4:59 PM, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Say today you want to write some manpages. How do you find a RFH bug > about adding or fixing manpages? Run manpage-alert and start documenting. > But there is no way to find bugs taged help given a skillset. Point taken though. --

Re: Work-needing packages report for Dec 9, 2011

2011-12-10 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Russ Allbery writes: > Goswin von Brederlow writes: > >> Maybe we also need a different "need help" system where it is easier to >> find something fun and usefull to do on a rainy day. > >> Something where RFHs for small jobs can be added with some tags for >> required skill sets and so on and a

Re: Work-needing packages report for Dec 9, 2011

2011-12-09 Thread Russ Allbery
Goswin von Brederlow writes: > Maybe we also need a different "need help" system where it is easier to > find something fun and usefull to do on a rainy day. > Something where RFHs for small jobs can be added with some tags for > required skill sets and so on and a frontend to filter out stuff y

Re: Work-needing packages report for Dec 9, 2011

2011-12-09 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
Russ Allbery writes: > Tollef Fog Heen writes: > >> I've always (well, since they were introduced) thought about the RFH >> bugs as either «we're now starting a team effort to fix up $package, >> please come and help» and more commonly: «I'm stuck maintaining this >> package with a mostly non

Re: Work-needing packages report for Dec 9, 2011

2011-12-09 Thread Russ Allbery
Tollef Fog Heen writes: > I've always (well, since they were introduced) thought about the RFH > bugs as either «we're now starting a team effort to fix up $package, > please come and help» and more commonly: «I'm stuck maintaining this > package with a mostly nonexistent/dysfunctional team, if s

Re: Work-needing packages report for Dec 9, 2011

2011-12-09 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] Russ Allbery > Tollef Fog Heen writes: > > > Maybe we should consider closing those bugs after a while? While I'm > > sure help for grub2 would be welcome, are people actually going to see > > that bug which is about 7.6 years old? What are the criteria for > > closing the bugs? > > Yeah,

Re: Work-needing packages report for Dec 9, 2011

2011-12-09 Thread Neil Williams
On Fri, 09 Dec 2011 20:43:46 +0100 Rodolfo kix Garcia wrote: > On 12/09/2011 07:15 PM, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > Maybe we should consider closing those bugs after a while? > > But, if the bug exists, you cannot close the bug. Of course it can be closed and it can be closed by anyone with a QA

Re: Work-needing packages report for Dec 9, 2011

2011-12-09 Thread Russ Allbery
Tollef Fog Heen writes: > Maybe we should consider closing those bugs after a while? While I'm > sure help for grub2 would be welcome, are people actually going to see > that bug which is about 7.6 years old? What are the criteria for > closing the bugs? Yeah, I've been wondering about that fo

Re: Work-needing packages report for Dec 9, 2011

2011-12-09 Thread Rodolfo kix Garcia
On 12/09/2011 07:15 PM, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: ]] For the following packages help is requested: [list of 64 packages with an average time since bug opened of just above 1000 days and a median of 881 days.] Maybe we should consider closing those bugs after a while? But, if the bug exists,

Re: Work-needing packages report for Dec 9, 2011

2011-12-09 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
]] > For the following packages help is requested: [list of 64 packages with an average time since bug opened of just above 1000 days and a median of 881 days.] Maybe we should consider closing those bugs after a while? While I'm sure help for grub2 would be welcome, are people actually going

Work-needing packages report for Dec 9, 2011

2011-12-08 Thread wnpp
The following is a listing of packages for which help has been requested through the WNPP (Work-Needing and Prospective Packages) system in the last week. Total number of orphaned packages: 392 (new: 2) Total number of packages offered up for adoption: 143 (new: 4) Total number of packages request