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From:
Richard Foley
Date:
December 11, 2000 02:09
Subject:
Re: bug db cleanup time
Message ID:
3A34ABDE.70385A05@m.dasa.de
Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
> 
> Thanks to many volunteers the number of open bugs in the bug db
> (http://bugs.perl.org/) has dropped to around one thousand.
> Which is nice and certainly better than, say, two thousand.
:-]

> The problem are the bugs in the bug process, I think... what I mean
> is that once a bug has been submitted there is no automatic periodic
> feedback back from us to the bug submitter.
There is a weekly 'overview' sent to p5p.

Perhaps with the advent of working groups (v2.32 in about a week), we
could auto-mail a relevant round-up of (still) open bugs to each
particular group?

> In the long term: any further ideas on the bug fixing cycle and its
> problems are welcome.  One idea I have would be to arrange 'bug
> interest lists', mailing lists that would automatically receive for
> example bugs on a platform X.
> 
The new working groups should recieve a notification of each bug
recieved that has been categorised under say: install, docs, core, etc. 
These groups are then expandable of course.  Would that do most of what
you want?

Ciao
-- 
Richard Foley
Ciao: shorter than Aufwiedersehen

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