Re: Bits and pieces related to Lintian
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On 2011-04-29 11:43, Jeremiah Foster wrote:
> On Apr 28, 2011, at 19:25, Niels Thykier wrote:
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>> Hi
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> Hello everyone,
>
Hey,
>> I figured a few somewhat unrelated things I would like to ask or bring
>> up, so here is a little "misc mail".
>
> I appreciate this type of occasional email.
>
:)
>
>> [...]
>> BTS cleaning
>> ============
>> We are currently just a few bugs shy of 200 unfixed bugs and we have
>> (mostly) stayed below 200 since early January (if you do not count
>> pending bugs). While we have been able to keep the bug count down for
>> the past few months, we have accumulated nearly 60 new bugs since May
>> last year[BG].
>> We have been doing a fair amount of work to keep this down, but
>> occasionally a bug or two slips through. Unfortunately, there are a lot
>> of bugs, which I am not certain how to deal with. In some cases there
>> is just the original report. That being said, I have also seen bugs
>> with a bit of dialogue, where the report just ends with a lack of
>> conclusion.
>> So I am hoping we could arrange some day to (re-)triage bugs or/and
>> simply just fix a lot of bugs. :D Perhaps as a part of DebConf11?
>
> I think a lintian bug squashing party at DebConf11 would be great. I'll try and poke at some of the bugs, that might ease some of my guilt. :}
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>
By all means, go ahead. If you are on IRC, feel free to poke me
(nthykier) if you have any questions or anything.
>> [...]
>
>> Roll call
>> =========
>> I have had a look at the list of current uploaders as well as the alioth
>> project page[AliPro] and from these I have compiled the following list
>> of people:
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>> * Adam D. Barratt
>> ~ Colin Watson
>> - - Frank Lichtenheld
>> - - Jeroen van Wolffelaar
>> - - Josip Rodin
>> - - Marc Brockschmidt
>> ~ Raphael Geissert
>> * Russ Allbery
>> - - Jordà Polo (alioth only/non-DD login)
>> * Niels Thykier
>
>> [...]
>
> Perhaps this list can serve as a general place to ping and raise bug issues? It can possibly be a catalyst to get long term lurkers such as myself more involved.
>
The trimmed list of uploaders or the mailing list? In the latter case,
we already get all of the bug reports here. Personally I was looking
for the former, because there are sometimes I am looking at a bug or a
patch and I am conflicted about it. In that case it is good to know who
can I ping/nag to give me a 2nd look.
Two examples for me are bugs like #586862 and #539760. In both cases I
feel like closing because we do not plan on fixing them (and they are
not "external"/"things we cannot do, but other tools might").
There are also a couple of more tricky bugs like the the sr@latin.po
bug(s), should be fixed now even though stable is still affected by it?
(something about a Pre-Depends is needed in stable)
> Regards,
>
> Jeremiah
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