Louis Lenders wrote:
Nikolay Sivov<nsivov<at> codeweavers.com> writes:
I believe developer's attention doesn't depend on bug state (confirmed/uncofirmed) at all.
I'm not sure about that, my experience is that some developers do care about regressions and some don't (actually i think that they missed the bug reports where the regressions are reported) . It would help at least that if those who don't, drop a little message that they saw the bugreport and are aware of the regression they caused ( or if their patch just was correct, and just revealed another wine-bug, add that information)
Actually a "regression" keyword supposes to mean exactly the same.
I don't agree about that, "regression" means the app doesn't work anymore, that could also be because of a distro-upgrade or a mis-configured system at the user side. Bisected means someone with same system+distro has pinpointed the exact patch that caused trouble. So this should have top-priority for wine-devs to look at, if wine wants to get mature.
Wouldn't it be easier to have both the regression and the bisected keyword, not only to determine the importance of a bug, but also to make the lives of people like Wylda easier? There are bugs that have been marked as regressions that haven't been bisected, and it would be great if people could easily find those bugs and bisect them. AFAIK, we have at least 50 bugs like this ATM.
Also, while we're at it, I was wondering why Wylda doesn't have Bugzilla rights yet. He has been doing an awesome job so far.