On Thursday, January 19, 2012 08:29:28 todd rme wrote:
On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 2:00 AM, Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> 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).
I would say the first question is - who's volunteering to be on the team... If say 3 people have time for it (which would already be really great) it'd make litle sense to split anything ;-)
-Todd