On 17 Nov 2004 18:57:21 -0500
"Nathan J. Williams" <nathanw@wasabisystems.com> wrote:

> Chris Tribo <ctribo@dtcc.edu> writes:
> 
> > - Certain key combos on some models of {Power/i}book cause the
> > system to power off, not sure if this is still true or not.
> 
> I think this is no longer true. I closed the (a?) PR that reported
> this recently; the bug has been fixed for quite a while (some keys
> were being mapped to the old PCMCIA eject buttons, which was a problem
> when those didn't exist).
> 
>         - Nathan

We need a volunteer to go through the PRs and evaluate them. Several are
two or more years since the filing. The volunteer needs to attempt to
set a target prioritization of PRs under the following guidelines, in
order of priority:

1) reproducible kernel panics or reboot needed
2) still exist with 2.0
3) useability
4) hardware specific, starting with newest models
5) age of PR

1.5 bugs get dropped, unless reproducible in anything tagged 2.0*. A
slew of PRs are bootloader related. Are they be eliminated with
ofwboot{.xcf} 1.10?

If the volunteers can not reproduce the bug, contact the original filer.
If the bug is hardware specific, post the hardware requirements. Someone
somewhere will have that hardware. If the bug can not be reproduced, and
the original filer can not be contacted, post that the PR is a
candidate for closure. The list can confirm or deny.

Additionally, a review of the macppc mailing list archives is needed for
issues consistently raised that have no PRs for them.

None of the above requires programming skills; in fact, I'd rather a
user with no programming skills do this because they are a better judge
of what stops them from using NetBSD.

tim

P.S. until someone tells me they are the boss ;-)