Bug trackers and kernel development
Posted Jul 17, 2003 12:00 UTC (Thu) by
wookey (subscriber, #5501)
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Bug trackers and kernel development by minichaz
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Bug trackers and kernel development
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.
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