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Re: [PATCH] dmd.cgi: Add general RC bug fixing to the maintainer TODO list.



On 24/07/12 at 11:57 +0200, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 11:15:45AM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> > On 19/07/12 at 14:46 -0600, Tim Retout wrote:
> > > If a maintainer doesn't have any RC bugs of their own to fix, then
> > > they might want to contribute to the general release.  Nudge them
> > > in the direction of the bug list.
> > 
> > While I agree that fixing RC bugs is very important, I'm a bit reluctant
> > to (ab)use the TODO list to list TODO items not related to the packages
> > being listed.
> > 
> > Any other opinions?
> 
> An obnoxious list of all RC bugs if you don't have "anything else" to do
> would be, indeed, obnoxious.  But OTOH a random selection of a few (2?
> 3?) RC bugs via a text like
> 
>   Nothing urgent to do in your packages, good!
>   How about helping the release fixing the following (randomly selected)
>   RC bugs?
> 
>   1. 
>   2.
> 
>   If you don't like them but would like to help the release anyhw, there
>   are <a href="...">many other RC bugs</a> to choose from.
> 
> would be nice. I think presented in a way similar to the above wouldn't
> be annoying and would help in spreading the culture of releasing in a
> more collaborative manner.

Mmh, maybe a good compromise would be to have a second table after the
"main" TODO list (for example "other ideas of things to do to improve
Debian"), and list that inside the second table.

> PS do you have any stats of how many people/access DMD is getting
>    already?

No. I asked on #debian-admin if it's possible to get access to UDD's
apache logs, but I didn't get an answer yet.

Lucas


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