Latest Fedora Core 3 status: kernel testing needed

Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
Thu Oct 21 16:07:15 UTC 2004


On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 12:02:11PM -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
 > On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 11:13:33AM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
 > > Because the amount of code changed upstream since your
 > > last report means this might be fixed.
 > > Bugs that get no replies doesn't mean no-one is listening.[*]
 > 
 > It'd be nice if Red Hat would have someone whose job was to be a Bugzilla
 > Monkey, to make sure people feel like their reports are valued, to
 > do triage, and to make sure critical problems don't escape notice.

There are a number of problems. 1) the sheer volume of bug reports
mean that its probably going to need >1 person doing triage work
2) a lot of bugs require context of what changed recently
(which means unless the triager is also doing some of the work,
 they won't know)

		Dave




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