On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 12:40:01PM -0700, David Fetter wrote: > While I am not going to reopen the can of worms labeled 'bug tracker', > I think it would be good to have a little more formality as far as > claiming items goes. Agreed.
> I'm picturing something like this: > > 1. Each person taking an item agrees to write at least one email each > week to -hackers detailing progress or lack of same on the item. > > 2. Should someone wish to relinquish a claim on a feature, there needs > to be some standard way to do a hand-off of whatever they've > done/found and announce that the feature is now available to others to > claim. > > 3. Should the person claiming the feature not communicate to -hackers > for some period--I'm thinking 3 weeks is about right--the item goes > back in the unclaimed pool with a message to -hackers saying that > that's what's happened. > > What say? It's a shame to have a person burn cycles on this, but anything would be an improvement over what we've got now. -- Jim C. Nasby, Sr. Engineering Consultant [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pervasive Software http://pervasive.com work: 512-231-6117 vcard: http://jim.nasby.net/pervasive.vcf cell: 512-569-9461 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend