Defect criteria

Posted Mar 6, 2006 16:39 UTC (Mon) by kirkengaard (subscriber, #15022) [Link]

On Sun, Mar 05, 2006 at 09:35:11PM -0800, Ben Chelf wrote:

> Right now, we're guarding access to the actual defects that we report
> for a couple of reasons: (1) We think that you, as developers of Linux,
> should have the chance to look at the defects we find to patch them
> before random other folks get to see what we found and (2) From a
> support perspective, we want to make sure that we have the appropriate
> time to engage with those who want to use the results to fix the code.
> Because of this second point, I'd ask that if you are interested in
> really digging into the results a bit further for your project, please
> have a couple of core maintainers (or group nominated individuals) reach
> out to me to request access. As this is a new process for us and still
> involves a small number of packages, I want to make sure that I
> personally can be involved with the activity that is generated from this
> effort.
>
> So I'm basically asking for people who want to play around with some
> cool new technology to help make source code better. If this interests
> you, please feel free to reach out to me directly. And of course, if
> there are other packages you care about that aren't currently on the
> list, I want to know about those too.

The last time I asked about access to your bug list, I was asked to
sign the equivalent of a non-compete agreement. Is this still in place?

Dave

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