From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Wolfgang Denk Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2021 10:07:48 +0200 Subject: Bug tracking In-Reply-To: <20210325193843.qniaryw2xxgkzqjf@ti.com> References: <20210325193843.qniaryw2xxgkzqjf@ti.com> Message-ID: <1768455.1617005268@gemini.denx.de> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: u-boot@lists.denx.de Dear Pratyush, In message <20210325193843.qniaryw2xxgkzqjf@ti.com> you wrote: > > You would need people to maintain the bugs that are reported in the > tracker. Asking for clear, reproducible info, closing duplicates or old > bugs, etc. Then you need people dedicated to fixing those bugs. Sure, > some can be taken up by subsystem maintainers or active devs, but what > to do with the ones that aren't? > > My point is, having a bug tracker needs volunteers to help maintain it. > Otherwise it would not be very useful and important bugs would get > drowned in the noise or be left stale. We can experiment with it but we > need to keep in mind the extra effort required. I think it is worth to start such an experiment. Eventually there are people out there who don;t have experience, time and resources for bigger development tasks, but who might help out with smaller tasks like bug fixing. > > Another option is to use source.denx.de but that would require > > allowing anyone to register so is probably a non-starter. > > Honestly, source.denx.de makes the most sense to me. I would expect the > Gitlab instance where the repo is hosted to also be where the bug > tracker is hosted. Makes it much easier to find. I fully agree here; this is also my suggestion. > But if allowing anyone to register is a no-go, then I would prefer > something decentralized/non-proprietary to keep the project independent > of the host. But people generally aren't very enthusiastic about those > because the proprietary solutions are just so easy to use... It is not a strict no-go, but we will have to think about some form of rate limiting - either in form of approvals (which would add to our work load) or allowing only OAUTH logins from other platforms as it's done for example here [1]. [1] https://gitlab.gnome.org/users/sign_in And we should make sure that only bugs against mainline versions can be reported - it makes no sense to collect bug information for out-of-tree code where we might not even have access to. Best regards, Wolfgang Denk -- DENX Software Engineering GmbH, Managing Director: Wolfgang Denk HRB 165235 Munich, Office: Kirchenstr.5, D-82194 Groebenzell, Germany Phone: (+49)-8142-66989-10 Fax: (+49)-8142-66989-80 Email: wd at denx.de In the realm of scientific observation, luck is granted only to those who are prepared. - Louis Pasteur