From owner-freebsd-bugbusters@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 25 21:30:20 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-bugbusters@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-bugbusters@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F34A516A416; Mon, 25 Sep 2006 21:30:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from linimon@lonesome.com) Received: from mail.soaustin.net (mail.soaustin.net [207.200.4.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6D6343D5D; Mon, 25 Sep 2006 21:30:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from linimon@lonesome.com) Received: by mail.soaustin.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id 6CF322E26; Mon, 25 Sep 2006 16:30:19 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 16:30:19 -0500 To: freebsd-bugbusters@FreeBSD.org Message-ID: <20060925213019.GA7268@soaustin.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i From: linimon@lonesome.com (Mark Linimon) Cc: ceri@FreeBSD.org, bms@FreeBSD.org, remko@FreeBSD.org, linimon@FreeBSD.org Subject: fwd: NetBSD PR-a-thon X-BeenThere: freebsd-bugbusters@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Coordination of the Problem Report handling effort." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 21:30:20 -0000 Here's what my reply to a private email from remko was; I think it may be of wider interest to start a dicussion here ... mcl On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 06:09:25PM +0200, Remko Lodder wrote: > Hey Bug-people, this could really be something for our efforts as well > (what we are doing recently) ;-) Sure, I'd like to see something like this happen. I am currently travelling (as I will be for a little bit) but if someone has some ideas on how to set this up, I'm listening. My perference would be to focus on the ones with 'patch' in them. If you use ~linimon/bin/showwithtag patch (e.g.) you'll see a list of them. Or, if you use the web form and search for \[patch\] (e.g.) you'll also see them. I think what bms is finding is that many of these things have already been committed over the years, or are OBE. remko has been doing a good job nuking the BS i386 ones; I have gotten more strict about closing the "support" kind of issues as they come in, since they almost always just rot. I'd like to see a community consensus that it's just hopeless to try to use any bugtracking system (GNATS or a possible successor) for that, given the resources we have. OTOH if people want to step up and do triage on those, rather than me just turning them away, that's great too. I'm going to forward this onto bugbusters@, that list is quiet these days anyways. IIRC this may even be what it was intended for in the first place ... mcl --DB41B43D7D.1159216931/mx1.FreeBSD.org--