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From: osynw@gemini.oscs.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Subject: Bug Report and Patchkit status
Message-ID: <1992Dec10.173351.11083@coe.montana.edu>
Summary: someone else?
Keywords: time,school,need a life!
Sender: usenet@coe.montana.edu (USENET News System)
Organization: Montana State University
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 1992 17:33:51 GMT
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Here's the situation.

I don't feel that I have done a very good job of keeping up the Bug
Report and the Patchkit lately.  Next semester is going to be worse, and
I'm losing my network access on my 386BSD machine.

Soooo,
	Does anyone in 386BSD land want to take over the Bug List
co-ordination?  I have been trying to put out another version of the
patchkit, but because of lack of time and trying to re-format the old
patchkit, I haven't added many patches.  (I have LOTS of them, and more
are coming every day)  Someone who has more time than me needs to take
over the co-ordination if this is going to be kept up to date.  I don't
mind doing it, but there is no way that I can stay afloat next year and
still get the extra work done keeping everything up to date.

Next, now that the patchkit fixes most bugs that everyone has, should
the Bug Report be discontinued?  Are the explanation's in the seperate
patches good enough for people to know what has/hasn't been fixed?  When
I give this thing up, should the next person only have to work on the
Patchkit, instead of doing both?  The reason I am asking is because both
of these projects are pretty intertwined, so having two people working
on them would require alot of co-ordination, since they are both looking
at bugs/fixes to 386BSD.  (One is the fix, the other is the explanation)

I guess that's it for now.

Respond via news or email, whatever you feel is appropriate,


Thanks,

Nate
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