Re: top 10 gruesome gnome2 bug list

[Karl Gaffney <Karl Gaffney Sun COM>]

> > Some relevant lists:
> > *The other 138 high-priority or greater non-solaris-specific bugs:
> > http://makeashorterlink.com/?I294239B
> >
> > Note: obviously I think solaris bugs are extremely important... I just
> > don't put them in here because there are a lot of them and they are hard
> > for linux-based hackers (which is the vast majority) to debug/trace.
> >
> 
> This brings up an interesting question...  My long time experience
> is that bugs on other platforms often manifest themselves on the original
> development platform, just in different and more obscure (and often much 
harder
> to debug) form.
> 
> Is there a Solaris box where developers can find nightly built bits
> available to enable Linux hackers to log in and track those bugs down?
> If not, could Sun set one up on the public net?
> 
> My intuition is that this would be a good way to help get the quality
> and stability of the overall Gnome platform up, if some way for the
> developers exist to change bugs on other platforms (particularly if
> standard gnu tools like GDB are installed and available).  It is often
> faster to get nasty bugs this way (on a platform where they happen
> to become obviou), than chase them the conventional way.
>                              - Jim

Sun would be very interested in doing this and would welcome
suggestions as how best to implement as quickly as possible.

-Karl.