Bug Amnesty

[denise]

As suggested on the June hackathon announcement!

Every day is Bug Amnesty Day around here, but since we're going to be concentrating on whacking down the numbers this month, I thought it would be a good idea to remind people: If you've got a bug assigned to you that you don't want to do anymore, whether it's due to it being outside your skill range or just that you're not as interested in it as you thought you were, please feel free to unassign it and toss it back into the general pool.

You can do this by setting the status from ASSIGNED back to NEW and changing the assignee field from your Bugzilla login back to "nobody@dreamwidth.org" (or hitting "Reset Assignee to default".)

Right now, there are 43 bugs that are assigned and have had no activity since January 1, and 65 that have had no activity since March 1. (There are 161 total assigned bugs with no patch uploaded to them, and 185 bugs that are assigned in total.)

I'd love to get those numbers down a bit, too, whether it's by the method of people uploading patches for their "assigned and aging" bugs or throwing them back into the general pool. Really, there is zero shame in deciding you don't want to do a particular bug anymore -- anyone who watches all Bugzilla bugs knows how often I do it myself -- and unassigning bugs that you don't want to work on anymore might be beneficial, because that bug you don't really want to do anymore might be someone else's dream project!