🚀 go-pugleaf

I'm looking for a volunteer to take on an important responsibility for
the GNU project: to read bug-gnu-utils and verify that all the bugs
are really getting looked at by a maintainer.

bug-gnu-utils is used to report bugs for many different programs.
Some of these programs, such as tar, Make, Gas, and the binutils, have
maintainers that I know are looking carefully at the bug reports and
will eventually fix them.  For other programs, I'm not sure.

So the job that needs doing is to:

* Save the bug reports, classified by program.

* Check occasionally whether the maintainer is really looking at these
bugs, and whether he's really working on preparing a new version with
fixes.

* Notify me whenever it looks like there is a problem with maintenance
on some program.  (If there really is a problem, then when I find a
new maintainer, I'll get the collection of bug reports from you and 
pass it on.)

* If you see a message that seems to indicate a bug in a program such
as GCC, GDB, or Emacs--that is, a program whose bugs are normally
reported elsewhere than in bug-gnu-utils--then forward the message to
the appropriate list where the maintainers of that program will see
it.

This needs to be done for all programs except a specific few.
Luckily, most of the messages on bug-gnu-utils are for those few
programs, which should reduce the amount of work in this job.

It would be sufficient to do this job twice a week, and it probably
wouldn't take more than an hour a week.  (Perhaps less.)
But it needs to be done in a reliable, responsible fashion.

Please send me email if you would like to volunteer.