-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 03/07/2011 02:34 PM, jdd wrote:
Le 07/03/2011 22:21, Ilya Chernykh a écrit :
I have an old winmodem not working in Linux. It there a chance that it is made working if I make a bugreport? Note that the production stopped about 10 years ago and the manufacturer did not disclose the specifications.
yes, this is a very good question. We had long time ago a discussion about for how long a time a hardware have to be supported. ATM nobody wanted to make a hard limit. May be we should say: "no harware older than 10 years" will ever be supported, if it works, so good, if it don't work change it.
this can be rude, but it's clear. I would support such thing.
bugzilla use:
* is it usefull to report a bug for the previous (supported) version, id it's not a security bug - (11.2)?
No, considering that 11.2 is only supported for security/crash/data corruption. Chances are the first question asked will be, "can you reproduce on 11.3/11.4/Factory?" This isn't because we're lazy, it's because we probably can't reproduce your problem and it's pointless to go through all the steps of debugging it if it's already been fixed.
* what is the manpower to give to the present version (now 11.3, next week 11.4) and what part to give to the future (factory)?
As usual, that's up to the individual developer.
* how many bugs are not fixed yet, and if the answer is bigger than a handfull, why ask for more?
Because that statement assumes that all bug reports are created equal, and they're not. A commonly encountered boot-crash issue will take priority over others. The GP's issue regarding an undocumented ten-year-old winmodem will obviously be extremely low priority. Even if a particular issue can't be addressed in a given release, it's useful to track it anyway. The openSUSE developer community is part of a much larger open source development community. Version updates between releases can incorporate fixes that didn't make it into the prior release and, I'd imagine, only a few of us actually have the time to actively track these. - -Jeff - -- Jeff Mahoney SuSE Labs -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk11YJAACgkQLPWxlyuTD7KpywCdElbxvYL4SgpCzPPjctXv6+fu PkoAn1dnqKOA1+mp9s/PnAqAI8sjVB8E =ujYd -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org