Wine's bugzilla has 375 unconfirmed bugs reported since the beginning of the year. A fair number of these are worth fixing, but don't have good recipes for how to reproduce them. I think it's time to make a concerted effort to recruit more Wine users to help triage bug reports, so wine developers can spend less time sorting through poor bug reports.
As a first stab, I've created a web page, http://kegel.com/wine/qa describing bug triage and giving easy steps for people who are interested in helping.
Please have a look. Comments and suggestions for improvement welcome. Thanks, Dan
From: dank@kegel.com
As a first stab, I've created a web page, http://kegel.com/wine/qa describing bug triage and giving easy steps for people who are interested in helping.
Good page. I'm afraid that it will not get enough exposure up on your site though, it seems to me it would fit perfectly into our Wiki. Ditto for the other (excellent) Wine pages you have there.
Le vendredi 23 septembre 2005 à 13:12 -0400, dank@kegel.com a écrit :
Wine's bugzilla has 375 unconfirmed bugs reported since the beginning of the year. A fair number of these are worth fixing, but don't have good recipes for how to reproduce them. I think it's time to make a concerted effort to recruit more Wine users to help triage bug reports, so wine developers can spend less time sorting through poor bug reports.
As a first stab, I've created a web page, http://kegel.com/wine/qa describing bug triage and giving easy steps for people who are interested in helping.
Please have a look. Comments and suggestions for improvement welcome.
Can you please tell people in the section "How to help: Triage appdb problem reports" To add bug links in the AppDB. I did it with all the hundreds bugs I have been reviewing lately and I think it's good to have it in the AppDB so that people are aware of bugs already reported.
Thanks.
On 10/4/05, Jonathan Ernst Jonathan@ernstfamily.ch wrote:
As a first stab, I've created a web page, http://kegel.com/wine/qa describing bug triage and giving easy steps for people who are interested in helping.
Can you please tell people in the section "How to help: Triage appdb problem reports" To add bug links in the AppDB. I did it with all the hundreds bugs I have been reviewing lately and I think it's good to have it in the AppDB so that people are aware of bugs already reported.
Good idea. Added to http://kegel.com/wine/qa/#triage.bugzilla How's it look now?
Le mardi 04 octobre 2005 à 17:03 -0700, Dan Kegel a écrit :
On 10/4/05, Jonathan Ernst Jonathan@ernstfamily.ch wrote:
As a first stab, I've created a web page, http://kegel.com/wine/qa describing bug triage and giving easy steps for people who are interested in helping.
Can you please tell people in the section "How to help: Triage appdb problem reports" To add bug links in the AppDB. I did it with all the hundreds bugs I have been reviewing lately and I think it's good to have it in the AppDB so that people are aware of bugs already reported.
Good idea. Added to http://kegel.com/wine/qa/#triage.bugzilla How's it look now?
Perfect. Thanks !
Can you add something about the keywords in the bug report. Most people don't add download keyword (most important), source, noAppDBEntry, FIXME, etc.
Also as you took some stats from bugzilla, it would be nice to provide some graph or plain stats in some days/weeks as a lot of work as been done in bugzilla lately. That could be a good inclusion in next wwn for example to let people know that bugzilla is alive ;-).
On 10/4/05, Jonathan Ernst Jonathan@ernstfamily.ch wrote:
Can you add something about the keywords in the bug report. Most people don't add download keyword (most important), source, noAppDBEntry, FIXME, etc.
I'll probably add something about the 'download' keyword. The others seem a bit arcane, not something newbie volunteers would need to know about, right?
Also as you took some stats from bugzilla, it would be nice to provide some graph or plain stats in some days/weeks as a lot of work as been done in bugzilla lately. That could be a good inclusion in next wwn for example to let people know that bugzilla is alive ;-).
Yes. I'll be updating the table weekly.
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