From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1IwaqB-00010X-6J for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 26 Nov 2007 10:05:23 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.2/8.14.0) with SMTP id lAQA57cD029827; Mon, 26 Nov 2007 10:05:07 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.2/8.14.0) with ESMTP id lAQA56dS029822 for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2007 10:05:06 GMT Received: from gentoo.org (c-67-171-150-177.hsd1.or.comcast.net [67.171.150.177]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F9EF656C0 for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2007 10:05:06 +0000 (UTC) Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2007 02:05:04 -0800 From: Donnie Berkholz To: gentoo-project@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-project] Re: [gentoo-dev] maintainer-wanted bugcount Message-ID: <20071126100504.GN4368@supernova> References: <474A95E4.6000906@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Project discussion list X-BeenThere: gentoo-project@gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <474A95E4.6000906@gentoo.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) X-Archives-Salt: fde62285-2ae2-45bb-aa4c-2fddba457b14 X-Archives-Hash: 4b9cfd735bf84c7ffb234dc070667da6 On 10:46 Mon 26 Nov , Markus Ullmann wrote: > when taking a look at the open bug count for bugs assigned to > maintainer-wanted (2450 at the time of writing), it seems pretty obvious > that we really can't handle all of them, at least not without growing at > least two dozen devs to maintain it properly. > > As I highly doubt this will happen within a week, we have to make a > decision how to proceed with this stuff. So what options do we have? > These come to mind: > > a) WONTFIX them within 4 or 8 weeks without picking them up > b) reassign them to herds (some herds are on CC) and have them > respond withing 4-8 weeks and give a yey or boo. > c) let interested users move it to sunrise (some of them are there) > so that the ebuilds are at least at our QA level we maintain for > gentoo-x86 and are there to be picked up by devs if they're > interested What is bad about the current state of leaving maintainer-wanted bugs open? What problem is it causing that you want to fix? Thanks, Donnie -- gentoo-project@gentoo.org mailing list