Bugtracking system

["Andreas Kuckartz" <A.Kuckartz@ping.de>]

In response to the recent discussions on alsa-user (regarding "complaints"
about the state of ALSA) I would like to make two suggestions:

1. Decide which bugtracking system should be used.

Currently there is one for ALSA at Sourceforge (see
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=27464&atid=390601) and there is
another one at kernel.org (see http://bugzilla.kernel.org/ Choose
Category=Drivers and Component=Sound and click the search button)

As you can see there are lots of very old open entries in the Sourceforge
system. Maybe the problems have already been resolved, maybe not. If a bug
has been assigned to anyone at all then to Jaroslav Kysela ("perex").
Obviously Jaroslav will not be able to handle all these problems himself.

The kernel.org system mainly contains more recent entries (for kernel
versions 2.5 and 2.6) but also includes a small number of OSS-related
problems.

I clearly prefer Bugzilla to the sourceforge bugtracking system.

2. Add a link to the choosen bugtracking system (or - better - to a new
"bugtracking"-page on the site or the wiki) prominently to the front page of
http://alsa-project.org. Currently an inexperienced visitor has difficulties
to find the bugtracking system or might not even look for it at all if
he/she does not see it mentioned on the front page.

Cheers,
Andreas



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