tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-170373997768604905.post1059016480093242954..comments2022-12-05T02:47:47.600-08:00Comments on Murray's FreeBSD Notes: End of Year BugbustingMurrayhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05615584529128840992noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-170373997768604905.post-90301346062392229452008-12-15T20:05:00.000-08:002008-12-15T20:05:00.000-08:00Mark - thanks for all the great work you guys do w...Mark - thanks for all the great work you guys do with bugbusting. Interesting data points about old PRs.Murrayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05615584529128840992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-170373997768604905.post-91915143609102473752008-12-15T03:01:00.000-08:002008-12-15T03:01:00.000-08:00My observations about old PRs: when we poll people...My observations about old PRs: when we poll people about them, the responses vary by category. Issues with booting and installing (in kern/) are often no longer relevant due to the submitter no longer having the hardware, or having switched to some other OS. In about 20% of the cases, the problems are confirmed to still persist. For problems in the bin/ category, more often than not the problems persist; apparently we have more people working on kernel/driver issues than on userland issues.<BR/><BR/>Ports issues are handled more efficiently due to the auto-assigner (which relies on the concept of 'maintainer' of individual entries).<BR/><BR/>We've been able to do much more work on classifying existing PRs, and new ones as they come in, because a number of new people have volunteered as 'bugbusters'. So, the contents of the database are in better shape than they've been in for quite some time.Mark Linimonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13426441964447766453noreply@blogger.com