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Re: Cfengine bug tracker
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Mark Burgess |
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Re: Cfengine bug tracker |
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Fri, 13 Jan 2006 22:25:19 +0100 |
John can probably do this. I'm not sure if I can, or how...
On Fri, 2006-01-13 at 14:26 -0500, Scott Lackey wrote:
> I would definitely like to help out with this, Mark or John, can you
> please add me to the SF control panel as I dont have access to do this
> myself.
>
> On 1/12/06, Eric Sorenson <eric@explosive.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 2 Jan 2006, Dave Love wrote:
>
> > [ context snipped ]
> > For what it's worth, if I remember
> > correctly that's a regression which I may even have failed
> to report
> > via the useless bug address.
>
> I've been mulling over this sentence since I first read it
> last week.
>
> Assuming you mean the SF bug tracker, to a first approximation
> this is
> my fault. About a year ago, I signed up to herd over the
> tracker, and
> I did pretty well (IMO) for most of last year. But I've
> recently found
> my free time has shrank from 'little' to 'less', and I'd like
> to
> formally pass on the torch to somebody. It's not an incredibly
> glamorous job but here are a few reasons why somebody might
> want to
> volunteer:
>
> 1. It helps the overall project to have a centralized list of
> known
> problems that are actively being worked on. (Community)
>
> 2. You can help others increase their knowledge of cfengine
> by
> ferreting out real bugs from user errors, and thereby gain
> a
> reputation as a CfBadAss (Status)
>
> 3. You will learn lots about how cfengine works under the
> hood, esp
> parts that you might not use yourself. If you want to
> become a
> better C systems programmer, getting down-n-dirty with
> cfengine
> under gdb/ddd can be a rewarding learning experience
> (Stimulation)
>
> It doesn't have to be one person, either; Scott Lackey
> (slackey on
> SF/IRC) volunteered to step up, but perhaps other folks want
> to share
> the responsibility; I think this is a good thing to help
> minimize the
> single-point-of-human-failure problem.
>
> Basically all it takes is, say "Me! Me!", Mark says "OK", him
> or John
> Sechrest grant you admin on the SF tracker, and you go through
> the bug
> list and whittle it down as best you can.
>
> Any takers?
>
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