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Bug trackers and kernel developmentBug trackers and kernel developmentPosted Jul 17, 2003 9:10 UTC (Thu) by minichaz (subscriber, #630)In reply to: Bug trackers and kernel development by hp Parent article: Bug trackers and kernel development I would be willing to be a "bug triager" for a project. I've just graduated in Computer Science and, while I'm not a good C programmer yet (taught Java at university and learning C now), I think this could be a good way to get involved in a project and get started in FOSS development. Any projects out there looking for a triager? I'm pretty handy with GNU/Linux, I'm really interested in the Linux kernel and have done a bit of kernel hacking for my third year university project (designing and implementing a steganographically encrypted filesystem: I ran out of time so it is very much a work in progress). Thanks
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Bug trackers and kernel development Posted Jul 17, 2003 12:00 UTC (Thu) by wookey (subscriber, #5501) [Link] Yes please, Debian would love to have you on board.Debian has been using a centralised bug-tracker for years and it's very useful for keeping track of a great deal of otherwise-disparate information; not just bugs, but info like the fact that someone is working on packaging a bit of software but it's not uploaded yet (to avoid accidental duplication of effort). It also make us painfully aware of the number of release-critical bugs we currently have and need to fix before we can release. We'd like to be heading for a release right now but the RC bug count is relentlessly climbing past 1000. More people working on fixing them would be very welcome. Some bugs are really hard because you get tied up in package dependencies and working out exactly what to fix where (and we have a team of experts for the hard stuff which you can defer to), but many are easy and simply require someone to recompile an app with a newer compiler or fix some trivial thing and do a new upload. It's hard to get people to concentrate on this work so we'd love to have anyone on board who is interested. You don't need to become a debian developer to help out, although it will help with some tasks.
Bug trackers and kernel development Posted Jul 18, 2003 12:44 UTC (Fri) by gerv (subscriber, #3376) [Link] I would be willing to be a "bug triager" for a project.Not wanting to compete with the Debian guy :-), but The Mozilla project, in its new shiny independent form, would love to have your help also. Gerv
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