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

Valette Eric
2002-10-29T22:29:54Z

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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