FC3 Bug Week - HELP WANTED

[Martin Alderson]

On Sat, 25 Sep 2004 05:42:20 -0700 (PDT), Steve G <linux_4ever at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >> Is there a prioritized "most wanted list"
> >
> >that's the tracker bug
> 
> IMHO, that is woefully inadequate. It refers you to bug 123268, which then has a
> list of bug numbers. Absolutely no idea what they are. If you are wanting free
> labor, you need to make it easy for people to see what needs to be done and
> volunteer to fix it. Suppose I want to work networking problems. Where do I find
> those bugs? I'm not going to click on each bug to see what its about.
> 
> Are all those bugs in 123268 equal priority? I have probably 10 bugs with patches
> that are already tagged for 123268. The simply aren't applied or maybe they're in
> cvs but unreleased. From my point of view they are fixed, but awaiting developer
> attention. How many more of 123268 is like that?
> 
> What's really needed to get people interested in helping is a web page that lists
> the bug's priority, the bug number (as a hyperlink so they can get the details),
> problem summary, and whether or not anyone is working it/status. The first 3
> things can be pulled from bugzilla's SQL database.
> 
> >make sure you join the irc channel; I suspect there's where people will
> >"claim" bugs...
> 
> This can't be done any other way? I haven't code reviewed any IRC software and am
> reluctant to install or use it on my machine until I know I won't get hacked
> through it.
> 
> I think Jeff's idea of a wiki page is easier. People don't have to punch IRC
> through their firewalls. The coordination is the key for bugweeks.

Wow, I bet you're fun at a LAN party. Everyone else playing UT2k4,
while you code review some other stuff to prevent you getting hacked.

Hell, get yourself a cheap P2-400 and a 56k modem and use that for
IRC, since you are so incredibly paranoid.

Martin
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