Bug Busters
Jakob Eriksson
jakov at vmlinux.org
Wed Dec 1 10:06:24 CST 2004
Mike Hearn wrote:
>On Wed, 01 Dec 2004 01:29:50 -0500, James Hawkins wrote:
>
>
>> agree that programs should be freely available to anyone if the bug
>>requires a program. Some of the bugs don't need them. I also agree
>>that the older bugs should be fixed first. We might even find that a
>>bunch of bugs we try to fix have already been fixed (it's good to
>>clean up bugzilla too). My thought is that we would pick the bugs
>>before the sessions so that anyone interested can research the
>>problems beforehand and we know what we're going to work on for the
>>session. Another option is that we pick the bugs to work on during
>>the session. I think both options are convenient and worth
>>considering. It's ultimately up to the community though.
>>
>>
>
>Well, as long as it's at a time I can do without having redeye the next
>day I'm happy to drop in and help with this. On choices of bugs:
>
>I think if this goes ahead, we should advertise this in developer circles
>and people who have bugs they'd like to fix, but aren't sure how, can come
>in and get some training. IE rather than it being a "service" for end
>users, it'd be more about getting people who already know programming and
>want to hack on Wine but need help doing so.
>
>
>
Maybe we can hack the regression tests too? Many of them bug
me to no end, but I haven't got a clue how to fix most of them. (Not once
have we had an all green run of winetest.exe.)
regards,
Jakob
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