On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 5:02 PM, James Hawkins truiken@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 4:45 PM, Austin English austinenglish@gmail.com wrote:
Very true. Where it would help is with knowing what apps people are running. Many people might try Wine, and never get it to work, then give up without filing a bug. Conversely, some people might have it work perfectly fine, but since it works great, we never see bugs filed. By collecting these statistics, we'll be able to know what apps to focus on, which will give a bit better direction on which bugs to fix, which features to implement, etc.
That's some pretty strange logic. If most people are running app X, but we don't know about it because it runs really well so we don't get a lot of bug reports for it, then why would we want to *focus* on that app? We should be focusing on apps that don't work, or have lots of bugs. We already have this information from the thousands of bug reports in bugzilla.
-- James Hawkins
It would give us an idea of what apps to focus on when/if moving toward graphical/app based regression testing, as well as what apps to focus on improving performance in.
Though, obviously those aren't high priorities, focusing on broken apps should be. Like I said, however, some people may get fed up and not bother to file bugs. I know often times in other programs, I don't file bugs, instead, I find a way around it or switch programs. Some others, like VLC, I try to report, but never am able to since they won't confirm I'm not a robot... /end rant