From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LRp8M-00009d-VD for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 09:41:47 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LRp8K-000083-7u for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 09:41:46 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=54471 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LRp8K-00007t-4O for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 09:41:44 -0500 Received: from qw-out-1920.google.com ([74.125.92.148]:55042) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LRp8J-0001DR-Fz for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 09:41:43 -0500 Received: by qw-out-1920.google.com with SMTP id 5so1274379qwc.4 for ; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 06:41:42 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <497F1D16.8060502@codemonkey.ws> Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 08:41:26 -0600 From: Anthony Liguori MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Qemu Trac? References: <497E60DC.7010203@codemonkey.ws> <1233045782.4789.38.camel@blaa> In-Reply-To: <1233045782.4789.38.camel@blaa> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Reply-To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Mark McLoughlin , qemu-devel@nongnu.org Mark McLoughlin wrote: > On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 19:18 -0600, Anthony Liguori wrote: > >> C.W. Betts wrote: >> >>> 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. >> > > An upstream bug tracker is much more preferable IMHO. > > Distro bug trackers are only good for tracking stuff that distro > developers might actually work on. > > 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. > > > >