Re: must-fix list reconciliation

[Randy.Dunlap]

On Fri, 3 Oct 2003 12:34:37 +0100 Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

| On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 07:19:51PM +1000, Nick Piggin wrote:
| > Hi everyone,
| > As you might or might not know, the must-fix / should-fix lists have been
| > inadvertently forked. We are merging them again, so please don't update
| > the wiki until we have worked out what to do with them. This should be a
| > day or two at most.
| > 
| > I had the idea that maybe we could put them into the source tree, and
| > encourage people to keep them up to date by making them become criteria
| > for the feature and code freeze. Comments?
| 
| I'm a little disappointed that after I spent time converting them into
| the wiki form, you're now proposing abandoning them again.  This seems
| like a retrograde step.
| 
| What I'd be more interested in doing is combining the must- and should-
| fix lists.  As a first pass, just put all the must-fix items on the
| should-fix list at pri 4.  One of the things I did was delete the things
| that appeared on both lists.  This would obviously be easier if they
| were in one list ;-)

Agreed on that.  I think the location is not the problem (whether
source tree or wiki), it's just an extra step to keep them updated,
and having no owner (or _many_ owners) often doesn't work.
Is one of you (or the two of you) willing to be the owner/editor?

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~Randy
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