Kernel Bug Triage - Join Us

[Jim Cornette]

Christopher Brown wrote:
> My dear Fedorites,
> 
> For the past week now I have been trawling through all open Fedora 7 kernel
> bug reports, assigning bugs here and there and generally
> irritating^D^D^D^Dhelping out various developers involved with the kernel to
> identify issues which will prevent Fedora 8 from being the unparalleled
> success we all know it will be.
> 
> People have now started replying to my requests for information and my pace
> has therefore slowed somewhat. Time is of the essence however development
> freeze for the kernel is still some way off so there is still a window of
> opportunity in which the thorny nettle may be grasped. Currently there are
> about 1600 open bugs against the kernel which is just too many.
> 
> The positive points of Kernel Bug Triaging:
> 
> - You don't have to be a kernel hacker to work here (but it helps!). I'm
> not.
> - You learn lots about the kernel and of course, bugzilla.
> - People are generally nice to you when you try to help out with their woes.
> - You make a difference, fix things upstream and we get one step closer to
> winning $YOUR_PERSONAL_BATTLE
> - PROFIT!!!
> 
> Here is all you need to get started:
> 
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/KernelBugTriage
> 
> If you find something you need an answer on something then really clever
> people can be found here:
> 
> #fedora-kernel
> 
> Join Us!
> 
> Cheers
> Chris
> 
> 

Reviewing from the Fedora List were two notable backward slippages. One 
breakage was with 3COM PCMCIA network cards and another with breakage 
for serial communication for external modems.

Neither problem inflicts me personally, but just adding since Fedora 
List seemed to list these as retro problems. Both threads mentioned 
earlier versions of Fedora working with success for the cards and 
external modems.

Jim

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