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First NetBSD Bugathon a Success

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the of-course-it-runs-over-bugs dept.

Daniel de Kok writes "Last weekend the first NetBSD Bugathon weekend was organized by Elad Efrat to handle as many open PRs (problem reports) as possible in a weekend, checking and fixing the bugs that were reported. Although the first Bugathon was not announced widely, it was a success: about 30 developers and 20 users closed around 270 PRs, bringing the number of open PRs down from 4200 to less than 4000. The next Bugathon will take place on 7-8 October, and NetBSD users and developers are invited to help fixing bugs and handling PRs."

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  1. Great...how about running it on another arch? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I'm getting tired of the same people who say "fewer bugs" but only really mean "fewer bugs...but only on the x386 or PPC architectures"
    The last few versions of NETBSD has been seriously broken on the VAX architecture
    (and before you say, "well, YOU Have the source...do something about it!"... I have been trying, but some of the bugs are beyond my abilities)

    I would feel much better if NETBSD was just truthful and say "ok, we USED to run on a bunch of different architectures, but we don't anymore"
    We keep getting the high-and-mighty "NETBSD runs on 40 different platforms"...NO IT DOES NOT.

    It's like saying I speak English, French, Spanish, Russian, and German... my mother tounge is English...I took French in high school. I know a smattering of Spanish from watching TV. I took one year of Russian & German in University.
    Realisticly, I only speak English.
    Realisticly, NETBSD only runs properly on about ten platforms, not 40

  2. Of course it was a success by RLiegh · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ...bugs thrive on corpses! :p

    Seriously, though; glad to see they had a good turn out for it. Hopefully this will put to rest some of the "NetBSD is irrelevent" crap that's been floating around recently. Particularly since most of the hype appears to merely be sour grapes from people who were on the wrong side of a power struggle and are now trying to tear down the project (as opposed to anyone with a valid beef).

    30 developers isn't that bad, really. Not up to FreeBSD numbers, certainly; but it's a good start. Particularly given that this event wasn't really publicised in any real way (there was nothing here, or on the front page of netbsd.org about it in advance).

    Sidenote to the guy having problems with his VAX: problems with one archetetcture (sp?) don't indicate that NetBSD is becoming x86-centric; they just indicate that maybe -just maybe- -what with NetBSD being contributer oriented and all- that the bugs just might be beyond the -VAX team's abilities as well.