Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2007 02:07:49 -0500 From: Yoshihiro Ota <ota@j.email.ne.jp> To: remko@elvandar.org Cc: ota@j.email.ne.jp, stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-bugbusters@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PR backlog Message-ID: <20071228020749.b5fc0ab2.ota@j.email.ne.jp> In-Reply-To: <18754.194.74.82.3.1198744988.squirrel@galain.elvandar.org> References: <20071226.003547.-932932005.imp@bsdimp.com> <1198689316.1119.382.camel@Particle> <20071226180415.GA27409@soaustin.net> <20071226.114224.-432836428.imp@bsdimp.com> <18754.194.74.82.3.1198744988.squirrel@galain.elvandar.org>
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On Thu, 27 Dec 2007 09:43:08 +0100 (CET) "Remko Lodder" <remko@elvandar.org> wrote: > > Hello Warner et all, > > On Wed, December 26, 2007 7:42 pm, M. Warner Losh wrote: > > Mark and Henrik make a number of good points here. Rather than reply > > to the details, I'm going to make a couple of quick observations. > > > > As a project we're not leveraging the community sufficiently when it > > comes to contributions. The current system of patch review and > > submission is very hap-hazard. If you happen to get the attention of > > the right person at the right time, then it goes in. If not, patches > > can languish a long time in the PR system. > > Indeed, I am one of the persons trying to find these relatively easy > things which I can do along side my other projects and things, but I dont > see them all (eventhough I try to keep track of them as much as possible); > but what will happen is that I learn more and more about the system and at > some point in time I will "stop" working on these easy PR's and seeking > more difficult ones to fix, at that point someone else has to step up to > fill in the gap that gets created; this might be a problematic part :-) > > Though for everyone having simple fixes, please send them to me so that I > can evaluate them and (together with Warner in this case (As my mentor)) I > will try to get them in as correctly and quickly as possible :-) (keeping > up with the high standards of FreeBSD ofcourse). I also opened the PR database a couple weeks ago looking for a solution to bugs I encountered. It's been quite long, some years, since I opened the PR page last time. It was surprising and also disappointing on the number of PRs left open for long time. How do I help that cleaning job? I am also interested fixing and concerned about this fact. Thanks, Hiro
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