Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (95 mails)

["Michel Salim" <michel.sylvan@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 21/08/07, Jared Allen <jpallen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Fair enough; it's just that everyone else (Debian, Ubuntu,
> > Fedora/RHEL) allows filing bugs against individual packages. I guess
> > (assuming users know how to file bugs properly, or developers reassign
> > bugs to the correct packages) it makes it easier to evaluate the
> > performance of individual package maintainers. If SUSE developers are
> > not assigned individual packages to work on, but the maintenance is
> > done in teams, then the point is rather moot, and it is not so
> > important to have components be 1:1-mapped to SRPMs.
> Personally, I'd rather allow filing bugs against individual packages.
> This would help a lot with bug maintenance and bug triage.  However, I'm
> concerned that the number of packages would make bug filing unwieldy
> with our current bug reporting interface (especially for the users that
> are less technical or experienced with the packages).  I think we'd need
> to change our bug reporting interface if we wanted to include every
> package.
>
How about a Simple bug-filing interface only exposing the major
components, but the Advanced interface letting users report bugs
against individual SRPMs? Bug-filing tools like bug-buddy (there's a
KDE equivalent too, I'm sure) could then file directly against the
SRPM as well.

Regards,

-- 
Michel
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