Bugbusters
I almost finished my bug buster threemester, fixed dozens small bugs, several serious issues and now trying to find something interesting to do. Actually I still have some not closed PRs in my queue but most of them just awaiting for MFC.
Some thoughts about the whole state of our bug busters team in order of appearance. First of all it is clear the bug busters team is small and we are suffering from that. We need more people working with PRs on regular basis.
Working with PRs you need to learn new code quickly, often change your focus, prepare test cases, do bother with core dumps and live kernel debugs wondering what an author of the code tried to do etc. It is a thankless job because people love new features often assume they are bugless or fixes come for free. Nothing wrong with that, people are just people. But I don’t think anybody would call this work interesting or “fun”. On the other hand it is very important for the project.
With the current incoming PR rate we need two or better three skilled hackers working almost fulltime. Fulltime means money. Perhaps a company which makes money on bug fixing is a good idea but I’m not sure it will survive.
In conslusion several links regarding PR:
June 29th, 2006 at 1:49 pm
How cannot I completely agree with you? That’s why I would like to have a “PR-Busting” session during the devsummit at EuroBSDCon 2006.
July 26th, 2006 at 2:17 am
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