Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 13:24:29 -0600 (CST) From: Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net> To: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 1998 Bugs Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.02.9903161241050.23362-100000@fly.HiWAAY.net> In-Reply-To: <36EE9914.B4359257@newsguy.com>
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On Wed, 17 Mar 1999, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: # The serious note about the problem that seems to be mounting # concerning the geometric (exponential?) increase in the number of # PRs is still valid, though. I agree. However, this is one of those recurring topics that causes alot of stink when it is raised but usually just dies off without anything actually being done to correct the problem. The last discussion about this on -committers came to just about (if not exactly) the same conclusion as you have reached in this thread - the current system is broken. The problem is that a proposed solution doesn't do any good unless it is followed thru to implementation. I hope this time is different and I offer up my services to make sure it happens and will do whatever is in my power as GNATS administrator to see that whatever policies we come up with are enforced. Right now we only have one approach to solving the problem and that is the brute-force approach. Everyone with an account on freefall just grab a bunch of PRs and fix them! This solution couldn't be any easier. The problem is finding enough motivated people to "Just Do It" (tm). Changing a PR's state or changing the responsible name has proven to not be any more effective than someone such a Sheldon Hearn (and no he is not the only one) just grabbing the PRs and following through with them until they can be closed out. We don't need to develop a fancy "this PR is still open/unassigned" reminder scheme to get PRs closed. We need motivated people to do the work. I see you closed some today. I closed off ~50 ports-related PRs on Sunday, have quite a few more in the works, and a huge list from Joergen Asmodai (sp?) that I'm delinquent on. Nothing works better than to stop talking about closing PRs and just close them. :-) # -- # Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) # dcs@newsguy.com # dcs@freebsd.org # # "What happened?" # "It moved, sir!" # # # To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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