Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (368 mails)

[Bruno Friedmann <bruno@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 01/19/2012 08:29 AM, todd rme wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 2:00 AM, Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 
> wrote:
> > On 01/18/2012 06:47 PM, Roger Luedecke wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2012-01-18 at 18:01 +0100, Bernhard M. Wiedemann wrote:
> > > > I think, Roger was talking about a different thing.
> > > > openQA is mostly about making sure that Factory's core packages are
> > > > usable, but not about following every single bug.
> > > >
> > > > The first part sounds like a bugzilla-screening team. I think, we have
> > > > some people there (who might also be on our opensuse-testing ML), but
> > > > things could be improved (faster, getting more bugs to the right people,
> > > > triage)
> > > >
> > > > The openFATE part might be missing atm, so that many fate requests just
> > > > lie around without people that could be interested knowing.
> > > >
> > > > I could imagine that we make tools to help those tasks (could be hosted
> > > > on the openQA server).
> > > >
> > > > Ciao
> > > > Bernhard M.
> > >
> > > Thank you. Its good to see I may not have been entirely amiss. Basically
> > > yeah, a well structured  bug testing and triaging team. With efficient
> > > procedures and good organizational tools I think such a thing could be a
> > > huge asset.
> >
> >
> > I agree. From what I read in the Forums, the user base is not happy with the
> > speed at which bug reports are initially processed, and the efforts placed
> > on clearing them. They also regard openFATE as a black hole for ideas.
> > Anything that could be done to improve these areas would be a help.
> >
> > One other thing that could easily be done is to notify the maintainer of a
> > driver whenever an oops is generated. The triage people at Fedora and Ubuntu
> > do this, which keeps me informed about problems with the drivers that I
> > maintain.
> >
> > Larry
>
> One question is whether there should be a single team, or separate
> teams for openfate and bugzilla (or, perhaps, members of the team who
> should be primarily dedicated to one or the other).
>
> -Todd

But at least, if that kind of mission is mandatory for the project, then the 
booster team (those who should help the community
to build the community) should schedule one or two milestone on that.

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