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Re: Bug tracking / Release Quality Assurance
From: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 18:03:28 +0200 (CEST)
1. I believe we should not ship GCC 3.2.1 (or branch 3.3.) until this
bug count has been significantly reduce.
2. I suggest that we close PRs that have been in feedback state but
not received any response for more than 6 months:
Examples: 3931, 4650, 5971, 5515, 6545
3. We probably need some (further) volunteers who monitor GNATS more
closely, ask submitters for further information/feedback and ping
maintainers concerning problems in their areas.
I agree on #1 and #2, but I'm not so sure #3 is going to help
all that much.
If maintainers aren't finding enough time to monitor GNATS in their
particular area, it is likely they are overloaded enough that some
volunteer pinging them they have stuff to look at won't get it done.
The volunteer who does the "ask for more information" bit will need
to be quite knowledgable. But if you found such a person who isn't
already taxed with GCC things to do, it would be useful to have
them help in this area.