reshuffling in bugzilla

[David Faure]

On Thursday 08 November 2007, George Goldberg wrote:
> On Nov 3, 2007 5:19 PM, Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi at kde.org> wrote:
> > moin,
> >
> > i have been looking through the product/component definitions and came
> > to these conclusions:
> >
> > - some initial owners need to be changed:
> >   - kstyle => fredrikh? (gallium (kszwed) left)
> >   - klocale => chusslove? (seems to be more active in this area than
> >     coolo in recent times)
> >   - kdesasl => kdelibs-bugs? (michael left. this component has one bug
> >     open)
> >   - somebody feels like stealing/giving away duty? :)
> > - there are both libkdegames/general and kdelibs/libkdegames. i tend to
> >   favor the former and move bugs and maintainer of the latter there.
> > - we need some serious triaging - closing obsolete bugs and reassigning
> >   owners - 1000 bugs are waiting ...
> 
> I have been hacking away at this for a couple of weeks now, but making
> very slow progress, especially since I am no expert...
> 
> Am using this techbase page, since I don't have ability to close bugs
> etc on bugzilla.

I almost wrote "now you do", but user 'grundleborg at googlemail.com' does not exist.
What's your bugzilla account?

> http://techbase.kde.org/Contribute/Bugsquad/Bugs_to_be_done

Cool initiative, an overview is quite useful.
The problem with a separate list is that it goes out of date; most of the konq bugs I clicked on were already closed...

> Any advice about what counts as obselete would be very appreciated...
> Also, what is the situation with arts? Is it still alive for bug fixes
> or is it completely dead?

arts is completely dead; the maintainer has disappeared a long time ago,
and the technology will go away with kde4.

-- 
David Faure, faure at kde.org, sponsored by Trolltech to work on KDE,
Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org).