[Mageia-dev] Proposal for bugzilla

Wed Dec 22 20:54:37 CET 2010

On 22 December 2010 21:45, Maarten Vanraes <maarten.vanraes at gmail.com> wrote:
+> Op woensdag 22 december 2010 20:38:06 schreef Ahmad Samir:
+>> Sure, but there's strace and gdb crash backtraces, that's what devs
+>> use to find where a crash/bug happens, whether it's in their
+>> package/code or somewhere else.
+>>
+>> To be more clear it's "one bug per report", that bug originates from a
+>> package, that's what gets to be put in the 'RPM Package' field; it's
+>> not unheard of that the 'RPM Package' field is changed through out the
+>> life cycle of a bug report.
+>
+> yes, but suppose there's a firefox issue and it appears to be a problem with a
+> system library, after it gets changed, people will never find this problem
+> again; since they look for firefox...
+>
+
+In two years, I probably never used the "RPM Package" as a search
+criteria (I don't have any statistics many people use it, my guess
+would be a small number); I usually search in the "Comment"s with
+"Contains all of the words" or "Contains all of the words/strings"
+(not just in mdv bugzilla, but in any bugzilla I use, some of them
+enable searching in the bug "Summary"); so you search for "firefox
+crash bookmarks" or "firefox crash move tab" or "firefox hang quit", I
+think that's what most users will do as the "RPM Package" is a bit
+hidden at the bottom.
+
+IMHO, this is better, because a GTK2+ bug could affect a lot of GTK2+
+apps, I don't think it's ideal to list every single affected package
+in the "RPM Package" field. The same goes for kdelibs or perl or
+python or ffmpeg... etc.
+
+-- 
+Ahmad Samir
+