Re: Volunteer(s) wanted to help with owner@bugs.debian.org

1998-06-14 Thread James R. Van Zandt
Steve Dunham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >"James R. Van Zandt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I'd sure like a mechanism, with either email or a browser, to get a >> list of the bugs registered against a particular package. > >What about http://www.debian.org/Bugs/db/ix/packages.html? Curren

Re: Volunteer(s) wanted to help with owner@bugs.debian.org

1998-06-13 Thread Steve Dunham
"James R. Van Zandt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'd sure like a mechanism, with either email or a browser, to get a > list of the bugs registered against a particular package. It would > help cut down duplicate bug reports. Now, I'm forced to download a > list of *all* the bugs. What about h

Re: Volunteer(s) wanted to help with owner@bugs.debian.org

1998-06-13 Thread Martin Schulze
On Fri, Jun 12, 1998 at 11:24:21PM -0400, James R. Van Zandt wrote: > > Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >Where should I start? > > I'd sure like a mechanism, with either email or a browser, to get a > list of the bugs registered against a particular package. It would > help cut down du

Re: Volunteer(s) wanted to help with owner@bugs.debian.org

1998-06-13 Thread James R. Van Zandt
Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Where should I start? I'd sure like a mechanism, with either email or a browser, to get a list of the bugs registered against a particular package. It would help cut down duplicate bug reports. Now, I'm forced to download a list of *all* the bugs.

Re: Volunteer(s) wanted to help with owner@bugs.debian.org

1998-06-13 Thread Richard Braakman
Bdale Garbee wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > > : What will you record as fixing-version ? > If we reorganize the server the way I've been discussing recently, this > problem would go away... because no package could ever get into a stable > tree without going through unstab

Re: Volunteer(s) wanted to help with owner@bugs.debian.org

1998-06-13 Thread Martin Schulze
On Wed, Jun 10, 1998 at 01:01:36PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > I'd like to offload some of the admin stuff for the bug system. > > I don't know how Guy (the other admin of the bug system) feels, but > I'd like to reduce the amount of time I spend running the bug system. As there were enough peopl

Re: Volunteer(s) wanted to help with owner@bugs.debian.org

1998-06-13 Thread Bdale Garbee
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: : What will you record as fixing-version ? If we reorganize the server the way I've been discussing recently, this problem would go away... because no package could ever get into a stable tree without going through unstable... one version stream should

Re: Volunteer(s) wanted to help with owner@bugs.debian.org

1998-06-11 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 3. Obviously additional development of the bug system would be good. >> This can be done either by the person doing 2., or independently. >> In any case the patches generated need to be sent upstream to me. > >I'm

Re: Volunteer(s) wanted to help with owner@bugs.debian.org

1998-06-11 Thread Yann Dirson
Bdale Garbee writes: > My personal wish-list for the bug system is pretty short. I would really > like > it if the process of closing a bug recorded the version of the package that > supposedly fixed the bug. That may not be so simple: think of package dummy_1.2-3 in hamm, and dummy_2.3-4 i

Re: Volunteer(s) wanted to help with owner@bugs.debian.org

1998-06-11 Thread Santiago Vila
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 11 Jun 1998, Bdale Garbee wrote: > [...] and we don't batch processing, we do each request as it arrives. Yes! Please! [ Bug #14650: The bug system is a little bit slow ] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: latin1 iQCVAgUBNX+ooyqK7

Re: Volunteer(s) wanted to help with owner@bugs.debian.org

1998-06-11 Thread Bdale Garbee
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: : Also its been suggested that the BTS not delete bugs, but store them : in some kind of long-term archive. Full-text searching couldn't hurt : either. :-) The approach we used at work is that bug closure causes the file to get moved to a different dir

Re: Volunteer(s) wanted to help with owner@bugs.debian.org (fwd)

1998-06-11 Thread M.C. Vernon
Dear all, I replied to this as well, but didn't cc to the list. Here is the original message for reference. Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward-elect of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.ca

Re: Volunteer(s) wanted to help with owner@bugs.debian.org

1998-06-10 Thread Johnie Ingram
"Bdale" == Bdale Garbee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Bdale> Perl5 now. However, he got really over-zealous and changed a Bdale> lot of other things, too, so that I'm sure how well what he did Bdale> would transfer back. Heh, that's unavoidable when adapting the system for use at a NOC or Helpdes

Re: Volunteer(s) wanted to help with owner@bugs.debian.org

1998-06-10 Thread Bdale Garbee
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: : I've had it packaged since the first week of January, actually -- just : never uploaded it because its too flaky even when using its own copy : of perl4 (included with the package, stolen from Ian's home dir). It : seems that two files, process and erro

Re: Volunteer(s) wanted to help with owner@bugs.debian.org

1998-06-10 Thread Johnie Ingram
"David" == David Welton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: David> They now have something. I'm not sure about the quality, or David> the backend, but.. they recently instituted a bug tracking David> system. Hehe, I've seen it, and thats what I mean. :-) - PGP E4 70 6E 59 80 6A

Re: Volunteer(s) wanted to help with owner@bugs.debian.org

1998-06-10 Thread David Welton
On Wed, Jun 10, 1998 at 06:08:36PM -0300, Johnie Ingram wrote: > >From what I've seen, RedHat needs something like debbugs bad. :-) They now have something. I'm not sure about the quality, or the backend, but.. they recently instituted a bug tracking system. http://www.developer.redhat.com/bug

Re: Volunteer(s) wanted to help with owner@bugs.debian.org

1998-06-10 Thread Johnie Ingram
"Yann" == Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Yann> What about another one: building a deb of it ? I would be of Yann> interest to people basing a new dist on Debian - it would also Yann> make it easy for people willing to study it and submit small Yann> patches (eg. the "Fixed" severity) I

Re: Volunteer(s) wanted to help with owner@bugs.debian.org

1998-06-10 Thread Yann Dirson
Ian Jackson writes: > Current tasks include: > * Indices of bugs by submitter. > * Implement `interested list' for each bug. > * Given `interested list', a way to submit a bug that puts you on > the interested list, so that you get notified of any status change > and not just cl

Re: Volunteer(s) wanted to help with owner@bugs.debian.org

1998-06-10 Thread Raul Miller
Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 3. Obviously additional development of the bug system would be good. > This can be done either by the person doing 2., or independently. > In any case the patches generated need to be sent upstream to me. I'm interested in taking a look at this. I don't wan

Re: Volunteer(s) wanted to help with owner@bugs.debian.org

1998-06-10 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Wed, Jun 10, 1998 at 02:31:10PM -0400, Bob Hilliard wrote: > I will volunteer to work on: > > 1. Reading and responding to [EMAIL PROTECTED] mail, and > 2. Actual administration and maintenance of the bug system (to the > extent of my capabilities - I will yell quickly if I get stuck). >

Re: Volunteer(s) wanted to help with owner@bugs.debian.org

1998-06-10 Thread Bob Hilliard
I will volunteer to work on: 1. Reading and responding to [EMAIL PROTECTED] mail, and 2. Actual administration and maintenance of the bug system (to the extent of my capabilities - I will yell quickly if I get stuck). I would prefer to share these functions with someone else, since I w

Re: Volunteer(s) wanted to help with owner@bugs.debian.org

1998-06-10 Thread Jules Bean
Put me down as a 'volunteer of last resort'. There are other debian related tasks I'd rather do, probably, but if no one else steps up, I will fill any of the above roles. I probably have the necessary expertise (I know perl4/5 well, I understand m4, I know SMTP related issues reasonably well).

Volunteer(s) wanted to help with owner@bugs.debian.org

1998-06-10 Thread Ian Jackson
I'd like to offload some of the admin stuff for the bug system. I don't know how Guy (the other admin of the bug system) feels, but I'd like to reduce the amount of time I spend running the bug system. So, I'd like one or two volunteers to take over some or all of the following tasks: 1. Reading