On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 7:58 AM, Allan McRae
While looking through bugs for [core] packages, I notice that there are a large number of bug report for these three packages. In total they account for ~13% of the bugs in the tracker!
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But given these are some of the uniqueness of Arch, I wonder what we _as a group_ could to do to improve this situation? Perhaps organize a hack-a-thon on IRC one day? Or we could advertise for help, with the selection criterion being a git repo provided by the applicant showing they can do stuff?
As discussed with Allan, here are some patches to initscripts: https://github.com/teg/initscripts-arch. Comments very much welcome. I started off with what appeared to me as the low-hanging fruit. Once I have had feedback on this I'll have a look at more difficult (or invasive) problems. My long-term goal is to ease the maintenance burden of initscripts by simplifying them and harmonizing them with other distros/projects (without, of course, loosing any of their features). Cheers, Tom