Dedicated bug (system) discussion list? [was: Bug#45196: KDE bugs database needs a spring cleaning]

[Stephan Binner]

On Thursday 25 July 2002 15:29, David Faure wrote:

> > KDE needs janitors, too many maintainers are missing/don't care.

First, this shouldn't say non-maintainers shouldn't hunt bugs. :) Second,
while agreeing that developers are missing for KOffice and "third-party"
applications some parts of "core" KDE seem IMO to fall behind in terms
of functionality, usability and maintenance. To my mind comes e.g. KMidi,
KSirc and KNode which could need more contributors. How about creating an
honest "Needs more contributors" list and not only putting that on the KDE
"Open Jobs" page but making it a dot.kde.org story for greatest attention?

> you want "me too"s, here's one. IMHO: just set this up, people will show up.

Curious about the regularly announced Gnome bug days, I watched their #bugs
yesterday for 8 hours. To be honest, it was discouraging: no noteworthy user
input, only one (Louie) obvious developer hanging around. 

> I'd be very happy to take part in a bugfixing day on IRC, away from all the

Fine, how about a regular day which concentrates on bugfixing by developers
(to which users can join) and on which feature commits are prohibited? Like
Friday night which would sum up to 4*½ days per month outside feature freeze?

Bye,
   Steve