On Sun, 24 Aug 2003, Mike A. Harris wrote:
On Sun, 24 Aug 2003, Stephen Smoogen wrote:
>>One example of this is midnight commander as someone pointed out.
>>mc requires XFree86-libs. Someone out there might want to have
>>mc installed on a system completely devoid of X, and will never
>>be using mc inside X on that system. They might not even have a
>>mouse attached to the system. Nonetheless, they have no choice
>>but to install XFree86-libs and all of it's dependancies if they
>>want to install mc.
>>
>
>I think 2 really cool things that the REALLY open development model can
>do is help organize Bug Triage days and also help point out and fix all
>these silly dependency chains. Maybe help rewrite spec files that create
>truly minimal packages that do not pull in extra dependencies.
That would be great. There's a lot of things that lots of us
would "like" to do, but never find time to prioritize ourselves
because we're too busy with work that is much more mission
critical or time related. Having people volunteer to do such
things, would be a great thing.
I did a cleanup of Bugzilla tickets between 1-15000 before 9 went gold
but got busy with other things :(. I think it would be a good idea to
have an official bug day. Maybe Red Hat could hold an informal contest
with awards of T-shirts and mugs going to people who have the best bug
reports, number of reports nad such.
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