Re: Updated game checklist - columns now sortable
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 10:31 PM, Edward Savage <epssyis(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I would think a logical extension to this sort of work would be a triage list of important bugs and regressions to be dealt with in quick order.
Well... that's kind of what bugzilla and the appdb are for.
I'm raising this as it seems very few gamers who use wine seem to report bugs or do regression tests. At most they seem to report that there is a problem on the forums or on the app page comments and leave it at that.
Yeah, historically, a few people (me included) have spent time watching the forums for that kind of report, and turned them into real bug reports.
If there was a centralised method of telling other gamers who are prepared to do tests and reports that there is a specific problem with xyz games it may improve the quality of information bug fixers have to work with and get problems sorted out in a timely fashion.
I suppose a way to make it really easy to test one's favorite set of games on the latest wine (as well as on any earlier release), and just click a big red 'Regression' button the moment one found one, might help.
Games are probably the biggest single application instance usage of wine so having a specific case for this genre of application make sense to me.
Agreed.
As another suggestion I'd be prepared to write a WWN style monthly report on the state of games running in wine. Including which ones no longer work, what new ones work, and what major efforts need to be undertaken for new games to work. I did a journalism elective last semester so it probably wouldn't suck as bad as my last attempt at writing a WWN. I would assume it would be totally independent of WWN releases.
Nah, just add it in to WWN, no reason to do anything separate. Start small! Just write a little section in http://wiki.winehq.org/RecentNewsQueue Heck, it is about time for another WWN, isn't it? - Dan [resending to list with permission]
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