From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 18:53:39 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] Bugs cleanup (input requested) In-Reply-To: References: <20140210154305.0db0bb01@skate> <20140210174858.62e72709@skate> Message-ID: <20140210185339.31f327ee@skate> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Dear Thomas De Schampheleire, On Mon, 10 Feb 2014 18:48:13 +0100, Thomas De Schampheleire wrote: > > What would this be useful for? I believe we should either find people > > willing to "adopt" those packages and do the remaining work needed to > > get them merge, or close the bugs. > > Main goal would be to visually separate 'add-package-foo' enhancements > (which are relatively easy to close) from other enhancements. Simply give them a distinctive title, like: "package addition: " > Finding people to adopt the package patches in enhancement requests is > similar to finding people to adopt patches from the patchwork cleanup > actions. The amount of developers attending the buildroot developer > days this year gives me good hopes to actually get to this, but it may > take some time. Indeed. I am however for fairly aggressively closing enhancement requests for package additions that are not very interesting to active contributors, and unlikely to find an adopter. Things like open-vm-tools doesn't seem that useful to me, for example :) Therefore, I would reply in the bug report, ask for either the original bug reporter or another contributor to adopt the patch, and if no reply within 2 weeks, close the bug. Best regards, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering http://free-electrons.com