Chris Morgan <chmorgan <at> gmail.com> writes:
How do you normally judge if the result is valid or not? What if the result says that everything works?
Basically i'm only talking about garbage test results. If the app is gold/platinum there's of course no need to paste debug output
It seems like any result could be faked, and we can't reject a test result from a user that had problem just because a handful of other users didn't.
Yeah, i agree, there's no way to solve that.
What else can we do with the issue you raised in #1? If users report their app doesn't work but don't report the crash data then at least we know the app doesn't work and thats valuable data. If it is too difficult to report bugs in bugzilla we should see if there are ways to assist with this.
I don't think it's too difficult, most users just don't bother to do this.
I'm not entirely sure what your point #2 is. You are arguing that we want to see crash results in test submissions because then we can reply with a suggestion about how to fix the issue? It seems like this is exactly the kind of thing we want in bugzilla since it reflects issues users have with Wine.
Unfortunately , if anyone would open a bug with the example
i gave in issue #2,it would be closed immediately with a comment
"Invalid" -> "Closing".
I guess my point about #2 is that assuming the user didn't do something really crazy, the issues the user has tend to be deficiencies in wine or its documentation and these really are legitimate issues that should be addressed.
Yeah, so maybe we could add a list of "Common failures" to the documention, with the solution. I can live with that. Then we could point garbage test submitters to that page. That would be a nice work around. I'll have to figure out how wiki works, and then i could give it a shot lateron i guess.
Something like:
Problem: err:module:import_dll Library MSVBVM60.DLL (needed by L"C:\app.exe") not found err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Main exe initialization for L"C:\app.exe" failed,status c0000135
Solution: winetricks vcrun60
or
Problem: wine app.exe err:ole:CoGetClassObject class {00000514-0000-0010-8000-00aa006d2ea4} not registered err:ole:create_server class {00000514-0000-0010-8000-00aa006d2ea4} not registered err:ole:CoGetClassObject no class object {00000514-0000-0010-8000-00aa006d2ea4}could be created for context 0x5 Unhandled page fault etc.........
Solution: winetricks mdac27
Would that be something useful?
Cheers, Louis