On 01/21/2012 10:07 AM, Jerome Leclanche wrote:
I think that's the point Henri was trying to make. Most of these components are useless.
Sure, you *can* pinpoint every component down, but as Henri said, if you do that, what's most likely to happen is you end up writing a patch.
It's probably worth checking every category and remove the ones with less than 5-10 open bugs.
First of all jerome, would you respect everyone and do a bottom posting on this mailing list. Otherwise people will just ignore everything you said. If you can't fix your mailer - use a different one. It's not an excuse to disrespect everyone else on this list.
On 01/21/2012 10:01 AM, Dmitry Timoshkov wrote:
Sorry, but honestly, in order to support an idea if adding/changing something in Wine bugzilla one should spend several months actively triaging bugs first.
I've spent enough time doing so and can tell that you are the first person to move _all bugs_ to "unknown" component. And leave them there. And that all developers can't be expected to read every single bug and try to understand if it's a bug in their area or not.
The whole point of triaging bugs is to collect enough data for a person(s) familiar with the general area to do a followup investigation and eventually fix the bug. Without knowing the area it's a waste of time for everyone to do investigation on _every single_ new bug.
One can't go just by bug subject - in most cases it's not accurate enough or outright misleading. Same for the content, logs, etc.
Vitaliy.