Jesse Keating wrote:
On Thursday 22 March 2007 12:29:42 John Poelstra wrote:
Has the project discussed or determined how we will:
- Close out the approximately 7,000+ open bugs?
- Handle future releases in a way that the backlog doesn't get so high?
Do you have any ideas? You're part of the projet.
This is something which has amazed / annoyed me too, I've tried several times to start a community effort to something about this metric, but sofar with little success.
These bugs fall into 2 categories: 1) Bugs which are simply being ignored by @redhat.com people who need to be hit with the cluebat (repeatedly) 2) Really really hard bugs (think xorg / kernel / hal /mkinitrd)
Most likely a lot of 1) bugs are already solved but never got closed / retested, others should be taken upstream (and thus closed in Fedora BZ), etc.
/me thinks we really should do something about the category 1 bugs....
Regards,
Hans