bugs, bugs, bugs!

[Elton Woo]

On Wednesday 30 July 2003 15:12, Havoc Pennington Havoc Pennington 
<hp at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 01:42:32PM -0400, Elton Woo wrote:
> > To be more specific: I've been requesting that my USB scanner be
> > automatically preconfigured ... *for the past three releases*. IMVHO,
> > since Red Hat is aiming to be more "user friendly" isn't this a
> > _reasonable_ request?
>
> No knowledge of this specific bug, but the binary toggle "reasonable"
> vs. "not reasonable" isn't the right way to think about it.
Here's the RFE:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=101074.

> There are two things that matter:
>
>  - the position of each request in developer's priority queue
>  - how many developers there are that have priority queues
>
> To improve this, as a project including non-Red-Hat people we can do
> two things:
>
>  - have more developers and thus more queues, by letting more
>    people contribute
>  - improve the priority queue; for example via the bugzilla methods I
>    posted
>
> Havoc
... and somewhat related to that RFE:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=85016
Mandrake linux, AFAIK, has had both these features for some
time now. I'm no programmer, so I cannot argue the difficulty or
ease of implemeting this in Red Hat's distro.


Elton ;-)
-- 
   http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/stats/team/team_4504.html
  "You only live once, so let's make life EASIER for each other."
  LINUX Registered User #193975. AMD-K7 ATHLON CPU power on board.