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Ciaran McCreesh posted <20040730034129.69c54140@××××××××.home>, excerpted |
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below, on Fri, 30 Jul 2004 03:41:29 +0100: |
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> On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 13:50:58 -0400 Dylan Carlson <absinthe@g.o> |
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> wrote: |
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> | On Thursday 29 July 2004 11:14 am, Duncan wrote: |
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> | > Anyway, Gentoo does great documentation, and with the bug entry |
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> | > wizard, the bugzilla interface is at least semi-usable, but Gentoo |
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> | > bugzilla is still by far the worst aspect of Gentoo Linux I've yet |
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> | > come across. |
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> | Well, the query screen is powerful, and as a consequence, it's ugly. |
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> It is? Actually, I'd say that the query is utterly crippled, since |
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> there's no way to search for all bugs on a particular package. |
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Exactly my point. |
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As I said earlier, component should be the particular package, complete |
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with drop-down list preventing user error on such an important field. The |
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summary should be a summary of the problem and not need the package name |
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or version. |
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What to do with stuff that doesn't fit that mold, then, in the broader |
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categories we presently put in product and component? |
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To some extent, they could be made other choices even if the meta-level |
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isn't quite the same. |
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The other way to handle it would be to create multiple bugzillas. Instead |
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of simply bugs.gentoo.org, there'd be linux.bugs.gentoo.org to handle the |
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mainline/traditional software product bugs, and other subdomains as |
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appropriate for the current top-level "products", therefore |
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admin.bugs.gentoo.org, recruitment.bugs.gentoo.org, etc. |
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One advantage of that would be that the bugzilla front-end and database |
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could be used, without shoehorning everything entered there into being |
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described as a "bug". Thus, altho I'm not sure exactly what is |
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tracked by the other categories, rather than admin.bugs.gentoo.org, it |
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could be called something like admin-tracker.gentoo.org, or |
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admin-db.gentoo.org, or admin-feedback.gentoo.org, or, perhaps |
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feedback.admin.gentoo.org, or tracker.admin.gentoo.org. |
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Of course, bugzilla admins and even experienced developers and users would |
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easily see it as bugzilla, but with the labels massaged a bit, it wouldn't |
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/look/ like a bug database, to someone not accustomed to working with one, |
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and sometimes, what something is called makes a big difference. |
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As I said, however, I'm not sure it'd be practical to attempt to switch |
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horses in mid-stream, as they say. Further, I'll come right out and say |
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I'm rather to much of a newbie to pretend that what I might have to say |
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should have any status at all. If it makes sense and can be used, great. |
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Otherwise, Gentoo's still the best (meta-)distribution option I've come |
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across, and I'll continue to use it, improving my skills and familiarity |
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with my distrib of choice, and aiming toward active participation at |
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whatever level I happen to be at, perhaps even as a developer if that time |
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should come. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little |
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temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- |
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Benjamin Franklin |
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