On 3/20/07, Tom Spear speeddymon@gmail.com wrote:
On 3/20/07, Jan Zerebecki jan.wine@zerebecki.de wrote:
Yea it would be good to collect information on winehq.org and not scatter it all over the web. I think there are all the (web)tools on winehq.org one needs for that, or is anyone missing something? (Other than that the bugzilla could really use an upgrade.)
Bugzilla queries are just a URL and it remains valid. So there is not much advantage to having a bug, right? But using components and keywords (in newer bugzillas there are even more ways to classify bugs) has the advantage that a change only triggers one change-mail. If the current components are not fain grained enough, we can always add more (and change the current ones).
BTW. I think the current component descriptions need to be enhanced, we should at least assign each .dll to one component (would make it much more obvious what should go where).
I tend to agree on both parts. Bugzilla does need an upgrade, but the problems are that we have no test server to make sure it will go without hiccups, at least not to my knowledge, and that with the last upgrade wiping out 3/4 of the tables of the bug comments, Jeremy is a bit wary of fixing something that isnt 100% broken, which I don't blame him for.
However, the components could use a major revamping and should be fairly trivial. However I think that one component for each dll might be a bit much.. Maybe narrow the dll's down to categories such as wine-common-controls, and wine-riched..
No, we had vague components before, and they're not useful. We need a component per dll. I don't think we should add them all right now, but when we have a bug report for a bug in a particular dll that isn't a component yet, the component should be added (by request).
My 2 biggest problems honestly are with the components we do have and with the search page. If we could fix the components it would be _much_ easier.. AFAIK there isnt much that can be done to the search page on wine's end, all changes would have to go in at the mozilla bugzilla tree.
What's wrong with the components (besides the possible lack of components for some dlls) and the search page?