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Re: [opensuse-project] Bug-filing granularity
- From: "Dominique Leuenberger" <Dominique.Leuenberger@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 18 Aug 2007 19:36:48 +0200
- Message-id: <46C75860020000290000687B@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> "Michel Salim" <michel.sylvan@xxxxxxxxx> 08/18/07 7:57 PM >>>
>I guess it's easier for users to file bugs, but it's harder to find
>bugs affecting a specific package? e.g. if I determined that there is
>a bug affecting, say, gnome-games, I need to search for bugs affecting
>the GNOME componenet, and either
>
>1) hope that the bug reporter mentioned 'gnome-games' in the filing somewhere
>or
>2) search through all GNOME bugs
>
>Or do bugs that become accepted have their descriptions updated by
>openSUSE developers, so that in this case searching for 'gnome-games'
>would match?
I think it's not that important to have the package name somewhere, much more important is the program name. A very good example IS gnome-games:
rpm -ql gnome-games | grep "/bin" | wc
17 17 302
so, we have actually 17 binaries in this package. A bug in a game (so one of the binaries) does not have to affect all the others. As well, the reporter might not be aware that the bug he just saw is coming from an underlying library, so in this case the component would be totally wrong per se.
The granularity is, imho. quiet good. It happens some times that you just don't find the correct answer, but that's not a problem, as the screening-team is doing a great job reassigning, should somebody select a wrong one.
Having now all the packages listed, would make it more than irritating for bugreporters; on my system, which is by far not fully bloated, I already habe 1347 packets. Would you suggest having an entry for every single one in bugzilla? I'm sure nobody would get it right anymore... that would be more than only confusin.
Dominique
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>I guess it's easier for users to file bugs, but it's harder to find
>bugs affecting a specific package? e.g. if I determined that there is
>a bug affecting, say, gnome-games, I need to search for bugs affecting
>the GNOME componenet, and either
>
>1) hope that the bug reporter mentioned 'gnome-games' in the filing somewhere
>or
>2) search through all GNOME bugs
>
>Or do bugs that become accepted have their descriptions updated by
>openSUSE developers, so that in this case searching for 'gnome-games'
>would match?
I think it's not that important to have the package name somewhere, much more important is the program name. A very good example IS gnome-games:
rpm -ql gnome-games | grep "/bin" | wc
17 17 302
so, we have actually 17 binaries in this package. A bug in a game (so one of the binaries) does not have to affect all the others. As well, the reporter might not be aware that the bug he just saw is coming from an underlying library, so in this case the component would be totally wrong per se.
The granularity is, imho. quiet good. It happens some times that you just don't find the correct answer, but that's not a problem, as the screening-team is doing a great job reassigning, should somebody select a wrong one.
Having now all the packages listed, would make it more than irritating for bugreporters; on my system, which is by far not fully bloated, I already habe 1347 packets. Would you suggest having an entry for every single one in bugzilla? I'm sure nobody would get it right anymore... that would be more than only confusin.
Dominique
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