Re: Re: making progress with ACPI was: ACPI small patch update

[Valette Eric <eric.valette-GANU6spQydw@public.gmane.org>]

Jan Rychter wrote:

>  Huw> I think the answer to this question is obvious. People who want a
>  Huw> bug tracking system are people who'd like to get involved with the
>  Huw> project either as a tester or more actively. 

I disagree : I mostly use a bug tracking system when I encounter a bug 
to see if someone else got the same problem and if the fix is already 
availiable. Only there I start to try to debug something. I have run 
debian for than 5 years now, and their bug tracking system saved my ass 
several time... I just spend a few days really debugging things. I 
probably have spend already more time testing/debugging acpi and 
readding this mailling list...

I complained about that in the list in the past and got an answer saying 
politely to shut up, to *not* use sourceforge tool, and post problem to 
the mailling list. Fortunately dominik spend some time helping me until 
it worked.

I also complained about acpi patches beeing done for 2.4 pre releases 
and not applying cleanly on 2.4.X official kernels.


> I strongly believe that the ACPI project would make much more progress
> if Andy and Robert put a little effort into tracking bugs and making
> releases.

I do agree. The more people do not want other to look/critic their code, 
the more they pretend what they do is a kind of black art, and do not 
document it or make design document :-) Fixing bug is annoying, making a 
new release and advising to report a problem on it is so more fun.


> If Andy and Bob don't want to use a bug-tracking system, there is no 
> way to force it.

Just keep telling them to they should. That there is time for adding 
feature and time for fixing bugs and making software work. Now ACPI is 
one of the few area where windows XP performs far better than linux and 
it has not been yet accepted into 2.4.x due to lack of stability...




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