Re: "Bug of the month", or how to get people fixing bugs
On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 03:45:18AM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> [Obey M-F-T or die]
Funny. Last followup I saw was on -devel...
> Here's the basic idea: turn bug-fixing into a game (a counterbalance
> to the huge quantities of time which moon-buggy and frozen-bubble have
> taken away from Debian development).
>
> People register to play, and each month, all the players are given
> three randomly selected bugs to tackle. Points are awarded to those
> whose assigned bugs get fixed during that month, with the idea being
> that people would endeavour to ensure their bugs get fixed swiftly, by
> whatever means they can (closing spurious bug reports, sending patches
> to the BTS, making NMUs, harassing the maintainer, or whatever).
I love it! We'll see if it works...
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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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