Date: Mon, 27 May 1996 10:07:51 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> Cc: scrappy@freefall.freebsd.org (Marc G. Fournier), freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org, committers@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: bin/675 Message-ID: <21856.833216871@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 27 May 1996 08:58:37 PDT." <199605271558.IAA21421@GndRsh.aac.dev.com>
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> Stop assinging bug reports to me without first asking me. I don't think that anyone on the committers list gets that privilege, and if you can't deal with this then perhaps you should ask to have yourself removed. Yes, that's kind of a harsh way of putting it, but consider: There's no sense in collecting bug reports if we don't also try to fix them and, while I don't like getting PRs assigned to me any more than any of you do, I also know that the existing "pool" of bug reports is simply way too large now to encourage the great majority of commiters to actually look through it. If the great majority of committers aren't looking at the PR database, then it clearly stands to reason that the entries there are going to go largely untouched, rot, and things will quickly begin to suck. There are three possible solutions to this: 1. Abandon GNATs and any pretense of tracking bug reports. Tell users to join user groups and pass fixes around on floppies. 2. Have one or two people go through the GNATs database periodically, rather than foolishly assuming that _everyone_ will do so, and have them assign bugs to individual committers who promise to at least look at them. 3. Something we haven't thought of yet. Option #2 might not *guarantee* that bugs will be attended to, since a committer can always ignore the little annoy-u-grams that Paul Traina sends out once a week, but it seems a whole lot more tangible and preferable to options 1 and 3. We've leaned on our users for over a year now to submit all these bug reports into GNATS and we're going to looked damned unprofessional if we fail to actually do anything with them. Of course, this all relies on the people of -committers being willing to play ball, something I don't think is too much to ask since nobody was down on the idea of going to GNATs when we started this in the first place. Now that the bill is coming due it's sort of like a big dinner - everyone has to put in their $10 or have those who will be forced to put in $12 to cover for them look daggers in their direction! :-) If anyone on the committers list has a problem with the idea of a bug report being "assigned" to them by a well-meaning bug report scanning volunteer (and you're always free to re-assign it to another, more appropriate committer if it's truly gone to the wrong place), then please speak up now! If it turns out that lots of folks have a problem with this strategy, we can rethink it. Thanks! Jordan
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