2009/4/12 James McKenzie jjmckenzie51@earthlink.net:
I understand your concern. I like bug reports, I just don't like bug reports in a vacuum. If we can get some of the functionality of an automatic Bugzilla to Applications Database linker in place this would make it much easier to avoid (not prevent) duplicate reports and for bug reports to have application entries and the other way round. I really would like to see a bug report for each garbage entry in the Applications Database with associated terminal output and such. This might give developers a push to fix a problem or implement code based upon the number of related problem reports and affected programs. For example, if only three people report the same bug on the same program would it make more sense to work on a problem that has fifty reports/votes and it affects a dozen programs. Of course, implementing the linker may be a project in itself.
I suspect single user login for the various Wine websites is a similar problem to arrange. And would facilitate such an appdb<->bugzilla linkage helping things along rather than being another barrier.
The problem is really the various sites having been built as five or six compeltely separate things rather than one in the first place.
- d.