[arch-dev-public] initscripts/mkinitcpio/netcfg maintenance

[Allan McRae]

On 19/11/10 16:58, Allan McRae wrote:
> 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!
>
> Firstly, I want to clarify that I'm not here to point fingers at anyone
> for not dealing with these bugs. We all only have limited time...
>
> 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?
>
> Comments/ideas?

So there have been no comments on this...

Since this email, James (iphitus) sent an email with a github repo that 
should fix ~14 bugs for netcfg.  Do we have no-one who wants to take 
that on?

Allan