On 02/09/2010 08:51 PM, Vincent Povirk wrote:
It would be very nice to know if any of the most reported ERRs, WARNs, FIXMEs etc. from the _previous_ run is now gone (in other words, that it has been fixed/implemented)
I don't think that's possible to determine from the statistics. Just because we don't see a message, or don't see it as often, doesn't mean it has been solved. Things that have been solved may still appear if people are still using older versions.
Actually it is fairly "trivial". Of course not from the statistics but from the source code. I have started to work on it some time ago. Basically it boils down to: - Extract the fixme/err format strings from the source code; coccinelle makes this task fairly easy (*done*). - Convert the format string into a regexp. - Match the regexp against the collected messages. The channel and function name already limit the search space a lot. - Profit.
Having a few Wine versions in the DB will then allow stuff like "first seen in/last seen in"; with enough messages in a log file one could even fingerprint the Wine version that probably generated that output. Though this isn't the only reason I started this work but in addition to: - To better group the messages together based on the source that generated those. - Provide a quick link from the message in the report to the Wine source code. To lower the barrier to entry so hopefully people will click on that and go "hey, I know how to fix that one".
bye michael