Re: the new style "mass tirage" of bugs
On la, 2008-02-23 at 09:08 -0500, David Nusinow wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 06:53:15PM +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Does this actually work for the kernel? I love the idea, but for X.org the
> janitor idea has failed miserably so far.
I've heard it does work for the kernel, at least most of the time, but I
don't follow kernel development so I don't know for sure. Anyone else
know?
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