From owner-cvs-all Thu Dec 10 02:51:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA06370 for cvs-all-outgoing; Thu, 10 Dec 1998 02:51:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA06359; Thu, 10 Dec 1998 02:51:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.9.1/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA01240; Thu, 10 Dec 1998 11:48:43 +0100 (CET) To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: Greg Lehey , Joseph Koshy , committers@hub.freebsd.org, vanmaren@fast.cs.utah.edu Subject: Re: Swat teams (was: problem reports) In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 10 Dec 1998 01:19:15 PST." <29693.913281555@zippy.cdrom.com> Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1998 11:48:41 +0100 Message-ID: <1238.913286921@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk In message <29693.913281555@zippy.cdrom.com>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" writes: >> The big thing that many people forget here, though (and it applies at >> least as much to commercial support organiziations) is that the real >> purpose of a PR is to draw attention to a problem. The fact that the > >The problem with this line of thinking is that when there are over >1500 unclosed PRs, many of which are so old that they'll more than >likely never be looked at again, they're not drawing attention to much >more than the fact that there are over 1500 unclosed PRs. Let me chime in here, now that I've woken up. Spending about one hour a day, I was able to keep the numbers of PRs almost steady. This was possible by pretty ruthlessly closing the bogus new ones, and by sweeping through the old ones. I could on average close 50% of the old ones using a criteria of: If version is very old -> close If unreproducible -> close If suspected hardware -> close If mail bounces -> close. Sticking a "[PATCH]" on the synopsis line doesn't seem to have triggered too many committers into action. -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." "ttyv0" -- What UNIX calls a $20K state-of-the-art, 3D, hi-res color terminal To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message