[gentoo-dev] Current projects, TODOs and Roadmap

[gentoo-dev] Current projects, TODOs and Roadmap

[Shanon Loveridge]

Hello everyone.

I have been using Gentoo for a while now and I would
like to work on the development of it. If someone
could point me towards a roadmap or a TODO feature
list for the next release I would appreciate it.
Otherwise would someone be able to quickly explain how
things are organised.

Also is there a way to show unassigned bugs in
bugzilla? As I can't seem to find an option.

Shanon

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Current projects, TODOs and Roadmap

[George Shapovalov]

Hi Shanon

You can really help by taking a look at the existing bugs. I was going to 
point you to bugs.gentoo.org, but I see you already know about it. To see 
unassigned bugs just query for "bug-wranglers" in "assigned to" field.
(create special query if you do this often).

You can similarly search for your topics of interest and propose your help to 
the assignee of the bug you got interested in. Most of us have tons of bugs 
assigned and quite a few of non-crytical ones typically sit waiting to be 
handled. I am sure nobody will object to you proposal to test and clean-up a 
new submission for example.

Another area where you can help is testing. If you are interested in this you 
can announce your intention here and on #gentoo channel on 
irs.openprojects.net. You should probably also get in touch with Damon Conway 
<kabau@gentoo.org> (who recently announced an intention to do regular QA 
testing) or Seemant Kulleen <seemant@gentoo.org> (who is our general 
"workforce" coordinator, hi Seemant ;)). You can talk to them on #gentoo 
directly.
Independently of this you can talk to Seemant on #gentoo, hi may suggest the 
areas where your help is the most appreciated.

George


On Tuesday 23 July 2002 05:29, Shanon Loveridge wrote:
> Hello everyone.
>
> I have been using Gentoo for a while now and I would
> like to work on the development of it. If someone
> could point me towards a roadmap or a TODO feature
> list for the next release I would appreciate it.
> Otherwise would someone be able to quickly explain how
> things are organised.
>
> Also is there a way to show unassigned bugs in
> bugzilla? As I can't seem to find an option.
>
> Shanon

Re: [gentoo-dev] Current projects, TODOs and Roadmap

[Karl Trygve Kalleberg]

On Tue, 23 Jul 2002, Shanon Loveridge wrote:

> If someone could point me towards a roadmap or a TODO feature list for
> the next release I would appreciate it. 

Such a thing does not exist. The closest thing we have is a Verwilst. He's
our release guru. If Bart gets around to updating his home page, perhaps
you can find something at http://www.gentoo.org/~verwilst/

> Otherwise would someone be able to quickly explain how things are
> organised. 

Mostly, developers either work directly on fixing bugs found
bugs.gentoo.org, or on more general solutions to the bugs that appear. 

And of course, they occasionally create a new ebuild on their own ;)

> Also is there a way to show unassigned bugs in
> bugzilla? As I can't seem to find an option.

All "unassigned" bugs are assigned to "bug-wranglers@gentoo.org", please
help yourself.


Kind regards,

Karl T