> On a similar vein, I can't quite work out what the system is for the bugs
> tracker - once someone has posted a bug and confirmed the circumstances
and
> how to reproduce it, is there any mechanism for scheduling a fix into the
> workstream, or allocating the fix to someone who knows that part of the
code,
> etc? I know this is an open source project run by volunteer developers,
and
> nobody can be told what to do, but I'm just wondering what mechanism is
used
> to try to get action on confirmed bugs which are in the system?

nag people on IRC ? ;)

There is a system to assign stuff to devs in the tracker but the only time
it gets used is when somebody starts working on it and wants to mark it as
such.

Really assigning work to people is too much like normal work and not quite
how things are done in Rockbox...

/Peter
Received on 2008-06-21