Re: December 2020 (old) bugs squashing!

[Maxim Cournoyer]

Hi Simon,

zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Let’s have an Advent calendar effort!  Everybody out there who is not
> familiar with this tradition of an « Advent calendar » and to avoid any
> ambiguity, I am appropriating myself the concept*: all of us try to
> close one or more bug per day from 1rst to 31th December, then 2021 will
> start on new balls as in tennis match. :-)
>
> In priority let pick bugs older than #30000 (~Jan. 2018).
>
>     <http://issues.guix.gnu.org/forgotten>
>
> From Debbugs, I count 151 bugs or forgotten patches, almost 3 years!
> Time to close them or investigate more.
>
>
> If you do not know how to proceed:
>
>  1. pick an old bug and read the thread
>  2. if the last message is ending with an unanswered question, then mark
>     it as moreinfo: send an email to control@debbugs.gnu.org using the
>     bug number (e.g., 23456) with:
>
>       tags 23456 moreinfo
>       thanks
>
>     Please give a look at:
>     <https://debbugs.gnu.org/server-control.html> 
>     
>  3. if you do not know what to do, then reply by asking if the bug is
>     still relevant for the author.  Please provide one line to remember
>     the topic and the link which points to the bug:
>
>       <http://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/23456>
>
>   4. if it is a patch, then check if it is not superseded by something
>      already merged, else try to apply it and report success, rebase or
>      failure.
>
> Last, good candidates are bugs with only one or two messages.
>
>
> I hereby offer some ’(define drink)’ for the one who will close as many
> issues as possible in those 31 days.  Well, with the hope to meet those
> bug fighters once real time meeting will be possible again, otherwise
> you will win my gratitude. :-)
>
> For now, Tobias and Maxim have good score but hey we are only the 1th
> day. ;-)

Eh, 2020 is behind us and I don't think I managed to close much bugs in
last December; it's a priority I'll try to keep up with in 2021.  Let's
bring the number of issues down to something we can fit in our head more
easily!

Thanks for the initiative :-).

Maxim