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Re: the new style "mass tirage" of bugs



Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi> writes:

> What might work quite well, however, is to have "bug janitors" (a la
> kernel janitors) who look at new bugs that have received no attention
> for, say, two weeks. If a bug gets reported against a package, and the
> package maintainer doesn't react to it, then the janitors can look at
> it. They could look at old bugs in general, of course.

I think this is a wonderful idea.  I would, for example, be happy to feed
the coordinators of such an effort information about one of my packages
and how a bug triage could be approached and then they could mentor
enthusiastic but untrained volunteers in how to tackle the bugs.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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