[Fedora-livecd-list] Time it takes to review bug/patch in bugzilla?

[David Huff]

On 07/06/2010 06:17 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 06, 2010 at 16:43:02 -0500,
>    Richard Shaw<hobbes1069 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> I posted the following patch[1] to the livecd-iso-to-disk script on
>> June 17th and still have not gotten any feedback. Not even a "Hey, you
>> suck a programming, don't ever do that again".
>>
>> This list is relatively low volume, but I can't even count the number
>> of times someone has posted about a problem to other lists and I've
>> typically seen responses to the effect of, "File a bug report, or
>> better, submit a patch!"
>>
>> Well that's exactly what I did, but taking nearly a month (and still
>> waiting) to receive any feedback does not do much to motivate people
>> to participate.
>
> The live spins area of Fedora is understaffed. I want to do more with getting
> things improved with livecd-tools, but I am also stuck taking a bigger role
> in the spins SIG part, as we are really short handed there. We really need a
> few leaders to step up and some worker bees willing take take on things
> assigned to them. (I would prefer to be in the worker bee category.)
> I also have some other important stuff (Ogre) that I need to get done before
> the alpha and it might end up taking up quite a bit of my time.
>
> I'd like to see reviews of the various pending patches get done and have
> some sort of process for deciding what needs to happen (just a single review
> or is more than one ack needed) before a patch can get applied.
>
> I was also hoping we could get a meeting set up where this stuff could be
> hashed up and we could get things moving again. I really don't have the
> time to lead this effort, but will provide some help in doing work if
> someone else does.

I totally agree, unfortunately I have taken on a new roll within Red Hat 
and I will not be able to devote as much time here as I would like.

I also agree that an irc meeting would be a good way to "kickstart" the 
project in the rear. Please check out the link below and indicate when 
would be a good time to hold the first IRC meeting.....

http://whenisgood.net/exg8qz

-D