Organizing more Wine bug triage

Wine's bugzilla has 375 unconfirmed bugs reported since
the beginning of the year.
A fair number of these are worth fixing,
but don't have good recipes for how to reproduce them.
I think it's time to make a concerted effort
to recruit more Wine users to help triage bug
reports, so wine developers can spend less
time sorting through poor bug reports.

As a first stab, I've created a web page,
  http://kegel.com/wine/qa
describing bug triage and giving easy steps
for people who are interested in helping.

Please have a look.
Comments and suggestions for improvement welcome.
Thanks,
Dan

[Dimi Paun]

From: <dank(a)kegel.com>
> As a first stab, I've created a web page,
>   http://kegel.com/wine/qa
> describing bug triage and giving easy steps
> for people who are interested in helping.

Good page. I'm afraid that it will not get enough
exposure up on your site though, it seems to me
it would fit perfectly into our Wiki. Ditto for the
other (excellent) Wine pages you have there.

-- 
Dimi Paun <dimi(a)lattica.com>
Lattica, Inc.

[Jonathan Ernst]

Le vendredi 23 septembre 2005 à 13:12 -0400, dank(a)kegel.com a écrit :
> Wine's bugzilla has 375 unconfirmed bugs reported since
> the beginning of the year.
> A fair number of these are worth fixing,
> but don't have good recipes for how to reproduce them.
> I think it's time to make a concerted effort
> to recruit more Wine users to help triage bug
> reports, so wine developers can spend less
> time sorting through poor bug reports.
>
> As a first stab, I've created a web page,
>   http://kegel.com/wine/qa
> describing bug triage and giving easy steps
> for people who are interested in helping.
>
> Please have a look.
> Comments and suggestions for improvement welcome.

Can you please tell people in the section 
"How to help: Triage appdb problem reports"
To add bug links in the AppDB. I did it with all the hundreds bugs I
have been reviewing lately and I think it's good to have it in the AppDB
so that people are aware of bugs already reported.

Thanks.

[Dan Kegel]

On 10/4/05, Jonathan Ernst <Jonathan(a)ernstfamily.ch> wrote:
> > As a first stab, I've created a web page,
> >   http://kegel.com/wine/qa
> > describing bug triage and giving easy steps
> > for people who are interested in helping.
>
> Can you please tell people in the section
> "How to help: Triage appdb problem reports"
> To add bug links in the AppDB. I did it with all the hundreds bugs I
> have been reviewing lately and I think it's good to have it in the AppDB
> so that people are aware of bugs already reported.

Good idea.  Added to http://kegel.com/wine/qa/#triage.bugzilla
How's it look now?

[Jonathan Ernst]

Le mardi 04 octobre 2005 à 17:03 -0700, Dan Kegel a écrit :
> On 10/4/05, Jonathan Ernst <Jonathan(a)ernstfamily.ch> wrote:
> > > As a first stab, I've created a web page,
> > >   http://kegel.com/wine/qa
> > > describing bug triage and giving easy steps
> > > for people who are interested in helping.
> >
> > Can you please tell people in the section
> > "How to help: Triage appdb problem reports"
> > To add bug links in the AppDB. I did it with all the hundreds bugs I
> > have been reviewing lately and I think it's good to have it in the AppDB
> > so that people are aware of bugs already reported.
>
> Good idea.  Added to http://kegel.com/wine/qa/#triage.bugzilla
> How's it look now?

Perfect. Thanks !
>

Can you add something about the keywords in the bug report. Most people
don't add download keyword (most important), source, noAppDBEntry,
FIXME, etc.

Also as you took some stats from bugzilla, it would be nice to provide
some graph or plain stats in some days/weeks as a lot of work as been
done in bugzilla lately. That could be a good inclusion in next wwn for
example to let people know that bugzilla is alive ;-).

-- 
Jonathan Ernst <Jonathan(a)ErnstFamily.ch>

[Dan Kegel]

On 10/4/05, Jonathan Ernst <Jonathan(a)ernstfamily.ch> wrote:
> Can you add something about the keywords in the bug report. Most people
> don't add download keyword (most important), source, noAppDBEntry,
> FIXME, etc.

I'll probably add something about the 'download' keyword.
The others seem a bit arcane, not something newbie volunteers would need
to know about, right?
> Also as you took some stats from bugzilla, it would be nice to provide
> some graph or plain stats in some days/weeks as a lot of work as been
> done in bugzilla lately. That could be a good inclusion in next wwn for
> example to let people know that bugzilla is alive ;-).

Yes.  I'll be updating the table weekly.