On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 12:31:53AM +0400, Nikita V. Youshchenko wrote: > Currently, BTS sends weekly two mails to debian-devel-announce - one about > WNPP and one about RC bugs. > > I think it will help to improve Debian quality if several more lists will be > "broadcasted" by BTS:
I'm rather concerned that if you make the BTS send half a million things to debian-devel-announce then no-one will read them. The level of attention paid to the RC bug list has dropped significantly since I became a developer. I think it's better for interested parties to look at this information themselves: > - Bugs that have "patch" tag for (e.g.) 2 weeks (and don't have "wontfix" > tag). Broadcasting such information will help in (seems not rear) > situations when random people submit bug fixes but those are ignored by > not-very-active package maintainers. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=patch&exclude=wontfix > - Bugs that are more than N months|years old (and don't have "wontfix" tag). > Broadcasting this information will motivate people to fix or close those > bugs at last. If package maitainer doesn't deal with a bug for a year, he > probably needs help, even if he didn't add "help" tag to the bug. http://bugs.debian.org/~ajt/oldbugs.html > - Packages with more than N bugs (I don't know what is a good value for N. > Maybe 30 or 50 or 100). Packages with huge bug lists probably need > community help. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgindex.cgi?indexon=pkg&sortby=count Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]