[Mageia-dev] How will be the realese cycle?

Sat Oct 16 21:52:52 CEST 2010

On samedi 16 octobre 2010 at 21:29, Marc Paré wrote :
+> There would be no middle man. Once the middle-man could replicate the 
+> bug and verify the bug with other users, then the middle-man would 
+> submit to bugzilla. That's it. From there on, the middle-man will take 
+> care of testing requests from devs.
+
+That would only work for pure software bugs.
+If the bug is hardware related, it is unlikely that the "middle man" will be 
+able to reproduce it. For those we really need the input from the real bug 
+reporter.
+
+And for software bugs, the "middle man" would have to reproduce the software 
+environment of the reporter, which may be complicated if he installed 
+software from third party (or worse, proprietary software).
+Sometimes the problem is obvious and only related to a single package, and 
+for such case a forum with some contributors reproducing the bug and then 
+submitting a bug report may work.
+But if the problem is related to a particular combination of packages then 
+the "middle man" could spend a considerable amount of time replicating the 
+reporter particular configuration before he can actually reproduce the bug.
+
+I think it may work if those "bug friends" (don't remember who proposed that 
+name) only take for themselves the simple, one package, software only bugs, 
+and suggest to the reporter to create himself a bugreport (eventually 
+providing assistance if the reporter has never done it before) describing 
+his problem, because the devs will really need his feedback first hand.
+That forum would be an easier entry point than bugzilla for users not 
+familiar with bugreports.
+
+-- 
+Renaud Michel
+