Re: Bugtracking system

[Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>]

At 21 Jan 2004 11:48:20 +0100,
Andreas Kuckartz wrote:
> 
> 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.
 
obviously SF's tracking system doesn't work at all.
we need a system which can handle the detailed sections (e.g. per
driver, version, etc), such as bugzilla.

> 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.

agreed.

> 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.

the only question is who adminstrates the bugzilla system on which
host.

any volunteer?


Takashi


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