I created a wiki page about bug reporting, review requested

I created a wiki page about bug reporting, review requested

[Tanu Kaskinen]

Hi,

When talking with PulseAudio users, I sometimes need to tell people to
file ALSA bugs, and it would be nice to have a web page that explains
how to do that. (Also, I found that the alsa packages in OpenEmbedded
point to a non-functional bug tracker, and I wanted to fix the
packages, but I couldn't find a substitute link.) Therefore I created a
wiki page: http://alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Bug_Tracking

The Bug_Tracking wiki page points to another new page, explaining alsa-
info.sh: http://alsa-project.org/main/index.php/AlsaInfo

Are the ALSA maintainers happy with the contents? I'm not really an
expert on how you prefer bugs to be reported.

Also, the "Bug Tracker" link in the wiki sidebar points to
https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug which doesn't work. I think
that link should be changed to point to the new wiki page, but I don't
have edit rights for the sidebar.

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Re: I created a wiki page about bug reporting, review requested

[Takashi Iwai]

On Fri, 04 Mar 2016 09:14:52 +0100,
Tanu Kaskinen wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> When talking with PulseAudio users, I sometimes need to tell people to
> file ALSA bugs, and it would be nice to have a web page that explains
> how to do that. (Also, I found that the alsa packages in OpenEmbedded
> point to a non-functional bug tracker, and I wanted to fix the
> packages, but I couldn't find a substitute link.) Therefore I created a
> wiki page: http://alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Bug_Tracking
> 
> The Bug_Tracking wiki page points to another new page, explaining alsa-
> info.sh: http://alsa-project.org/main/index.php/AlsaInfo
> 
> Are the ALSA maintainers happy with the contents? I'm not really an
> expert on how you prefer bugs to be reported.

Yeah, I'm happy with it.  Thank you!

Though, a few more hints would be better to be put:
- alsa-devel ML needs the manual approval if posted from
  non-subscribers.  Subscribe to ML before posting, or be patient.

- A too long text is seen as a spam.  The alsa-info.sh output might be
  better compressed and attached to the mail.  (A long text can go out
  after the manual approval, though.)

- HTML mails are silently dropped as spam on alsa-devel ML.


> Also, the "Bug Tracker" link in the wiki sidebar points to
> https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug which doesn't work. I think
> that link should be changed to point to the new wiki page, but I don't
> have edit rights for the sidebar.

Right, this has been dead, and I also wish it removed...
I thought I tried it but failed due to the edit right, too.


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Re: I created a wiki page about bug reporting, review requested

[Tanu Kaskinen]

On Fri, 2016-03-04 at 18:03 +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> On Fri, 04 Mar 2016 09:14:52 +0100,
> Tanu Kaskinen wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > When talking with PulseAudio users, I sometimes need to tell people to
> > file ALSA bugs, and it would be nice to have a web page that explains
> > how to do that. (Also, I found that the alsa packages in OpenEmbedded
> > point to a non-functional bug tracker, and I wanted to fix the
> > packages, but I couldn't find a substitute link.) Therefore I created a
> > wiki page: http://alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Bug_Tracking
> > 
> > The Bug_Tracking wiki page points to another new page, explaining alsa-
> > info.sh: http://alsa-project.org/main/index.php/AlsaInfo
> > 
> > Are the ALSA maintainers happy with the contents? I'm not really an
> > expert on how you prefer bugs to be reported.
> 
> Yeah, I'm happy with it.  Thank you!
> 
> Though, a few more hints would be better to be put:
> - alsa-devel ML needs the manual approval if posted from
>   non-subscribers.  Subscribe to ML before posting, or be patient.
> 
> - A too long text is seen as a spam.  The alsa-info.sh output might be
>   better compressed and attached to the mail.  (A long text can go out
>   after the manual approval, though.)
> 
> - HTML mails are silently dropped as spam on alsa-devel ML.

Thanks, I added these points to the wiki page now.

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Tanu
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