[gnome-love] Re: Project needing volunteers -- bug review

[Elijah Newren <newren gmail com>]

I've had a couple people step forward and volunteer to handle this
already.  Thanks everyone.

On Wed, 13 Oct 2004 20:27:30 -0600, Elijah Newren <newren gmail com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> A little while ago I sent an email to desktop-devel-list about a new
> bugzilla script to find bugs that were blocked by various freezes in
> the release process that could probably be acted on now.  Some of
> these included old patches from many releases ago that had been
> approved for when the code freezes were over, but had been forgotten
> and still haven't been applied.  Only a handful of bugs from that list
> have been acted upon, and there are still 26 left as of right now.
> I'd like to make it easier for maintainers to act upon them so I need
> a volunteer, or perhaps multiple volunteers, to do gather the
> following information about each of the bugs in the list:
>
> product & component
> bug #
> whether the bug has a patch (or even multiple patches).  If it does:
>   how old the patch is
>   whether the patch still applies cleanly against CVS HEAD (if it
> doesn't, please
>     also add a note about this to the bug itself too)
> summary (the current bug summary may be enough but look for extra things
>   that may be useful, such as extra comments that may have been added--it's
>   possible the only action that needs to be taken is to remove the
>   BLOCKED_BY_FREEZE keyword or mark the patch as needs-work to get the
>   bug off the list)
>
> I'd like to mail this list to d-d-l along with the names of the person
> or people who put it together.  Please email me if you are interested.
>  Information that may be of use to you:
>
> The list of bugs needing review:
>   http://bugzilla.gnome.org/reports/patches-to-act-on.cgi?use_blocked=1
>
> A short overview on how to apply patches:
>   http://www.gnome.org/~newren/tutorials/developing-with-gnome/html/re05.html
> (Note that having a patch apply cleanly means that the patch command
> reports no messages like "HUNK 1 of 3 failed")
>
> An overview of checking out modules from CVS
>   http://developer.gnome.org/tools/cvs.html
> (By default, checkouts from CVS are from CVS HEAD, so once you have
> the code checked out, you can then run patch to see if the patches in
> bugzilla still apply)
>
> Cheers,
> Elijah