Re: [Qemu-devel] Qemu Trac?

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 19:18 -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote:
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>> C.W. Betts wrote:
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>>> Is there a trac or something similar that keeps track of bug reports 
>>> and feature requests?
>>>       
>> No.  KVM has a bug tracker.  Each distro has bug trackers too.  To be 
>> completely honest, the distro bug trackers are probably the best place 
>> to file bugs simply because they have people who's job it is to poke 
>> upstream developers about particular bugs :-)  Of course, that requires 
>> reproducing with the distro packages.
>>     
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> An upstream bug tracker is much more preferable IMHO.
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> Distro bug trackers are only good for tracking stuff that distro
> developers might actually work on.
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> If it's a bug or feature request that is relevant upstream and is never
> going to reach the top of the distro developer's queue, then the
> information belongs somewhere that upstream developers or developers of
> other distros can see it.
>
> Of course, an upstream bug tracker that is mostly ignored isn't much
> help either. The KVM tracker is an example of that. But it's still
> better to have stuff ignored in an upstream bug tracker than stuff
> ignored in a distro bug tracker.
>   

I, and I expect many other developers, have a hard time getting excited 
about bug trackers.  I think something that's a bit more exciting is an 
regression suite that posts results somewhere public.  It makes it 
harder to submit bug reports (because it requires submission of a test 
case), but it makes triage/state tracking automatic.

If someone wants to invest some effort into improving QEMU QA, I'd 
suggest looking at automated regression testing.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Cheers,
> Mark.
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