bugzilla (and desk guide) [was: a patch for tasklist segfaulting...]

[Dennis Bjorklund <db zigo dhs org>]

On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Tim Janik wrote:

[desk-guide]

> i've not seen any random crashes since Nov14 where i fixed a visual!=NULL
> assertion in the code. so assuming you run V0.4 or better yet CVS HEAD,
> i'd apprechiate info beyond "it crashed".

It crashes every time one turns on thumbnails in the preferences. And this
have been filed as bugs in the bugtracker system many, many times. I did a
quick scan and found a couple of them. But I guess that there is many more
hiding under many of the ones that have the word crash or segfault in the
summary.

Look at

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38382
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=38113
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35526
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=51170
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37661

All the same bug. I would have marked four of them as duplicates of the
other, but it seems that I can't. I guess I don't have to authority to do
that. I don't know why.

I talked with people on irc the other day about this bug and many people
could reproduce it right away.

Bugzilla is full of bugs saying that desk guide crashes. Maybe someone
should go over the list and mark bugs that are old and that seems to be
fix as WORKSFORME. That's the usual thing to do when you don't know if a
bug applies any more and where it seems to be working. Then the reporter
can reopen the bug if he wants to and if not one can think of the bug as
gone..

I entered a bug about desk guide

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52020

but I have no hope of that anyone will look at it. It says that a mail was
sent to

gnome-core-maint bugzilla gnome org

which means nothing to me. Maybe there is no one at all reading on this
adress. Comparing with mozilla, there you see a couple of real
mailadresses to the people that wan't the bugreport for a certain area.
And after a while you get to know the people that gets the bugreports and
it's easier to get a dialog going.

Why is there an extra step where it's sent to gnome-core-maint, which
probably is just a list of the interested people. Why isn't that list
directly in bugzilla just as in mozillas case.

-- 
/Dennis