From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from starfish.geekisp.com (starfish.geekisp.com [216.168.135.166]) by mail.openembedded.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AEA03602DA for ; Fri, 10 Jan 2014 02:47:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 1179 invoked by uid 1003); 10 Jan 2014 02:47:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.254.26?) (philip@opensdr.com@74.47.80.243) by mail.geekisp.com with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 10 Jan 2014 02:47:37 -0000 Message-ID: <52CF5F3E.3030402@balister.org> Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2014 21:47:26 -0500 From: Philip Balister User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130625 Thunderbird/17.0.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Trevor Woerner References: <52CDDD3E.7040508@linaro.org> <52CE8075.8040700@communistcode.co.uk> <52CEBB27.10709@linaro.org> In-Reply-To: <52CEBB27.10709@linaro.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 Cc: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org Subject: Re: bug scrub - RFC X-BeenThere: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 02:47:37 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 01/09/2014 10:07 AM, Trevor Woerner wrote: > On 01/09/14 05:56, Jack Mitchell wrote: >> On 08/01/14 23:20, Trevor Woerner wrote: >>> questions: >>> 1) Currently it has been suggested this should be a 2-day event, should >>> these two days be during the week or over a weekend? In either case, >>> which 2 days? >>> >> If it's two days long then why don't you do the best of both worlds and >> have a Friday/Saturday or Sunday/Monday combination? > > I was thinking of doing it either fully during the week, or fully on a > weekend since my feeling is that most people either work with OE/Yocto > during the weekdays or on the weekend. There's nothing to say we > couldn't run this "bug scrub" during the week, then run a second "bug > scrub" 2 months from now on a weekend (or visa versa). I'd suggest starting with a one day thing on a weekday so we can try and get a critical mass of people in place over a shorter period. We can always change things around based on how this works. > >>> 2) Since this is an OE event, should it focus only on OE bugs[2], or >>> should it be generalized for any bug? >> I don't think we should be limiting people to what they can work on >> while "participating". > > Since this is an OE TSC event I didn't want any hard feelings ;-) I also > thought that maybe it would be easier to get people interested if this > "bug scrub" was targeted at a specific project. I thought there's a > chance it might help get people interested if we said "let's have a bug > event where we target these 30 bugs" instead of saying "there are 1000's > of bugs in the bugzilla, pick one and try to do something about it". > Can someone make a bugzilla query that lists bugs that are good candidates for a bug scrub. Ideally, things that are easy to resolve so we can beat the numbers down, Philip >>> 4) It would be cool to be able to provide incentives to help people get >>> interested and contributing to knocking some bugs around. So if anyone >>> (*cough* Intel) has any neat hardware (*cough* Galileo, Edison) they >>> could offer as an incentive (or, conversely, if there's a board you'd >>> like to see Yocto target) please see about making that happen. >>> >> A unified effort towards a "new trendy" board would be a fun goal, but I >> worry that hardware teething issues would then eat up run of the mill >> bug fixing time, handouts for participation however, (bug fixed/reviewed >> by/tested by) would be a great idea. >> > Sorry, yes, this is what I meant. > _______________________________________________ > Openembedded-core mailing list > Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org > http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core > >