From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Patrick Shirkey Subject: Re: bug tracking? Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 19:12:26 +0900 Sender: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <3EC3680A.60904@boosthardware.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from gate.perex.cz (gate.perex.cz [194.212.165.105]) by alsa.alsa-project.org (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id MAA18893 for ; Thu, 15 May 2003 12:35:32 +0200 Received: from www2.webhosting.cx (www2.webhosting.cx [207.44.198.86]) by gate.perex.cz (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id MAA16682 for ; Thu, 15 May 2003 12:26:31 +0200 Errors-To: alsa-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: To: Takashi Iwai Cc: Jaroslav Kysela , ALSA development List-Id: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org Takashi Iwai wrote: >> >>The question is, if we have power to maintain such large bug reports. >>>From my experience, it works only few weeks until the system has many >>unresolved reports. Then the database gets filled and only some bugs are >>solved when our time permits. Also, when the database is large, it is >>a bit problematic to mark solved reports (especially old ones). > We also have the added difficulty of making sure each driver is adaquately covered by the system. > - no template for necessary information > > e.g. alsa version, driver, chip/board name/model, output of lspci > output of proc files, etc. > These could easily be found with a simple script or maybe there couold be an alsa.debug file in /proc/asound. > > also, a moderator person would be helpful in addition to the automatic > assignment according to the given driver/function. > How about having a bugs mailing list and also the address of the driver writer. We could then post the report to the mailing list, the driver writer and also archive it on the alsa website. I will start making a bugs page over the next few days which we can fine tune here. I'm not sure that bugzilla is appropriate for ALSA as we have so many different devices to look after however I will use it as a reference. -- Patrick Shirkey - Boost Hardware Ltd. Http://www.boosthardware.com Http://www.djcj.org - The Linux Audio Users guide ======================================== Being on stage with the band in front of crowds shouting, "Get off! No! We want normal music!", I think that was more like acting than anything I've ever done. Goldie, 8 Nov, 2002 The Scotsman ------------------------------------------------------- Enterprise Linux Forum Conference & Expo, June 4-6, 2003, Santa Clara The only event dedicated to issues related to Linux enterprise solutions www.enterpriselinuxforum.com