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

[Stephan Kulow]

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On Friday 26 July 2002 12:27, Stephan Binner wrote:
> 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?
>
I don't know about your real life experience, but friday night sounds like a 
bad idea for coding :)

Greetings, Stephan
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