James Hatheway wrote:
Hi everyone,
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The other keypoint that was brought up was that: we need to drive
users in and make it easy
for them to help with (A) Docs, (B) Bugs, and (C) Testing apps
-James
As a _not_to_bright_ user of wine I would like to comment on the above.
A) Thankyou to Jerry Newman for getting the online documentation at winehq current this I feel is the first/best step to getting user input to the docs. By keeping the documentation at winehq current users (like me) can count on having access to the most current documentation without additional searching. To build on this we need a documentation mailing list to capture/discuss problems with the documentation. I believe it would be helpfull to have a link to this list via www.winehq.com/support.shtml . This would enable users to easily contribute thier comments. Of course having the network news interface up and running would be helpfull as well (insert smilely).
B) My thoughts on bugs. all Bugs fall into four categories
1. Crashes Crashes are relitively easy to find and report. The documentation for this just needs to point to bugzilla for reporting.
2. Regressions (function used to work and now dosn't) These bugs are a little harder to trace but the procedure is well documented. We need get the reporting of these bugs to point to bugzilla.
3. FIXME's (function is not implimented) There should be a bugzilla report for each FIXME.
4. Incorrect implimentation bugs These are bugs that are hard to find/fix because the function is implimented incorrectly but the program works otherwise. There isn't any really good documentation on how to track these types of bugs (that I could find).
All that is fine enough and can be fixed through proper documentation.
Bugzilla however needs considerable work in order for it to be usefull. in order to get this email out in a timely fashion I can't be more specific. I will comment on the problems I see with bugzilla at a latter date. I do think we should use it but it needs work.
C. Testing apps? I have no real idea what you mean.
Tony Lambregts