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[fwd] RFC: organising focused BSPs

Hey,

[sorry for the cross-post.  please don't reply to all lists]

I've sent the attached mail to debian-qa, and would be interested to
have the opinion of maintainers of other big (sets of) packages.

Cheers,
Julien
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Hi,

First a bit of background: I spent yesterday going through bugs filed
against the xserver-xorg package (some of them had no reply since their
submission 3 years ago), closed a bunch, and then looked at
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?maint=debian-x@lists.debian.org
which still lists 1219 bugs as 'Outstanding'.  I find this situation
depressing.  Brice Goglin went through all the debian-x bugs 2 (I
think?) years ago, it took him the best part of a year as a heroic one
man effort, and it should be done again now.  That prospect doesn't help
with the "depressing" part.

So one thing I think might help would be to organise some sort of
focused BSPs where you pick a weekend, a set of packages (say X, or
gnome, or mozilla, …), and 20 or so people, and you try to triage /
answer / close as many bugs as possible, instead of looking at RC bugs
across the distro.  Preferrably with 2 or 3 members of the relevant team
to offer guidance, and a wiki page with some specific guidelines.  Doing
this might actually make a visible dent in the amount of bugs that sleep
in the BTS, and a group effort could make it somewhat more fun than
going through 1000 bugs alone.  Plus I think it would actually increase
the quality of the distribution if we can look at our bug pages instead
of being scared of them.  I suggested this on #debian-devel-fr earlier
today and people seemed to agree it was a good idea.  Has this been
tried before (I can't remember any such thing in Debian)?  What do you
think?

(I'm not subscribed to -qa, please cc)

Cheers,
Julien

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