Wolfram Sang wolfram@the-dreams.de wrote:
I noticed that Wylda uses "--private keyword: bisected" when appropriate. IMHO this could be useful as a real keyword, e.g.
if you search for bugs you'd like to try tackling. Has this been
considered already?
There is a keyword 'regression', that should be enough.
Hi, it depends, if regressions are considered as bugs of top priorites.
I would wish, if they could be considered, because killing them early means, that quality of wine is not getting worse during the ongoing development.
Imagine, that someone used to have a working game in 1.1.42 and his distro offers him upgrade to 1.1.44. He goes ahead with upgrade and apps stops working. He fills in a bug - UNCONFIRMED & REGRESSION keyword. Then someone other have exactly the same problem, so confirms that and we have the bug with NEW & REGRESSION. So something serious, which should attract dev's attention. But when developer begins to work on that, he spends some time with getting the demo, verifies it's behaviour and then finds out, that the problem is wrong Ubuntu package. So his time with this bug was wasted.
Compare this with regressions which are bisected (aka "bug served on silver tray"), so saves a lot of time. And of course such a keyword would help in dev's triage what to fix first.
Of course this has a sence and helps only if _truly_confirmed_ regressions are taken seriously, i.e. fixed as first. But Wine is still not in this state.