Re: [Tracker] Bugzilla is not the evil [was Re: Issues with current trunk]

[Luca Ferretti <elle uca libero it>]

Il giorno ven, 05/12/2008 alle 18.10 +0200, Ivan Frade ha scritto:

> 3) Move the feature requests (enhancements) to a wiki page. Some of
> them depends on FTS and things that still need some months to arrive,
> so those bugs are distracting us from the real issues.

bugzilla provide an "enhancement"[1] value for Severity. Some modules
have "Future" value for Target Milestone[2]. 

Don't forget that bugzilla allow you to make bug xyxyxy depends on bug
yyxxyy, so you can say "sorry, we can do this only when xyxyxy will be
fixed" :)

However, tracker developers are really lucky. Try to read
rhythmbox-devel list and count how much crazy feature request are
posted :D

> The code now is totally different so a crash in tracker-search-tool
> using the last released tracker is completely useless. The same
> applies to the Ubuntu bugzilla. I try to keep an eye in the bugzilla
> but it is very difficult to see the real important bugs for the next
> release.

This is true. Could be also interesting check if reported misbehaviors
in 0.6.6 are still reproducible in trunk (example, the infamous
audio/mp3 <> audio/mpeg issue, fixed in trunk) 

Cheers, Luca.


[1] from bugzilla "Request for a new feature or functionality."
[2] from bugzilla "This field describes the version of the product that
developers or the maintainers believe they should fix the bug by. This
field is not meant for use by general users, the bugsquad, or the
release team. It is reserved for developers and maintainers of the given
module."