[Mageia-dev] Proposal for bugzilla

Thu Dec 23 20:44:14 CET 2010

On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 11:34:35PM +0100, Samuel Verschelde wrote:
+> Le mercredi 22 décembre 2010 21:25:39, Michael scherer a écrit :
+> > 
+> > On Wed, Dec 22, 2010 at 01:55:02PM +0100, Frederic Janssens wrote:
+> > > On 2010-12-22, Michael Scherer <misc at zarb.org> wrote:
+> > > > Le mercredi 22 décembre 2010 à 00:32 +0100, Frederic Janssens a écrit :
+> > > On https://qa.mandriva.com/ anything goes.
+> > > To permit consistent searches I think we should standardise.
+> > > The aim would to be to as specific as needed but not more;
+> > > as far as I know that would be :
+> > > 
+> > > name-version-release
+> > > 
+> > > unless the bug is architecture specific, where we would have :
+> > > 
+> > > name-version-release.architecture
+> > 
+> > There is already a "architecture" field, afaik, as well as a version field,
+> > no ?
+> > 
+> > ( I didn't check as I refuse to enter my password over a insecured http session ).
+> > 
+> > And I think that giving rpm ( and not srpm ) will make search a little bit complex
+> > in some corner cases ( can will also cause problem for the next point ). 
+> > 
+> 
+> So you think the (S)RPM field should only contain SRPM filenames ?
+
+No, just the srpm name. 
+At least from a data point of view.
+ 
+> If yes, I agree with that, because as Frederic stated above, in current 
+> Mandriva bugzilla, there's no enforced rule for that. You can put 
+> anything in the field, and you often end up with rpm filenames, or 
+> simple package names (e.g. "virtualbox").
+> 
+> However asking bug reporters to know the SRPM is too much, so this rule 
+> can only be enforced on Packagers and Triage Team side I think. This is 
+> already how it works on qa.mandriva.com : if you know the SRPM, you put 
+> it, if not someone will triage and do it for you.
+
+Well, that's more a UI question, and so it should be decoralated from the 
+way we store data in the DB.  ( now, it may be hard to achieve, but I am sure 
+that templates + ajax could do miracle, like "enter the name of rpm here" and
+have it searched with js to fill the proper input ). 
+
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+