Mike Hearn wrote:
It strikes me, looking at the wine-bugs list, that there is a huge disparity between the number of people maintaining it and the number of people filing bugs in it. It seems to be quite rare for communication on bugfixes to take place there, wine-devel is the more usual forum.
IMHO, Bugzilla is usually more complex to use, also if it's a lot more clean than using a mailing list, because here we can add dependencies and resolve bugs. Actually, I don't use it either, probably because I usually forget that there's the Bugzilla :) I started using it to submit ebuilds to gentoo, and then for KDE, before that I never used it. It's also true that also posting on wine-users or wine-devel doesn'tmake sure that the bug will be seen: I posted sometime requests for more info about an error or a behaviour of a software under wine, but it's rare that something is found out. Also, there's still my patch for SHLWAPI floating around, because I hadn't had the time to clean it up, but noone answered in the topic AFAICS ( http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.emulators.wine.devel/22665 ).
Maybe a 'promotion' to the use of bugzilla can help address the bigger issues.