"Sound" keyword on bugzilla

[Vitaliy Margolen]

On 01/20/2012 12:45 PM, Austin English wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 20, 2012 at 11:04, Dmitry Timoshkov<dmitry at baikal.ru>  wrote:
>> Henri Verbeet<hverbeet at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>
>>> On 20 January 2012 17:25, Dmitry Timoshkov<dmitry at baikal.ru>  wrote:
>>>> If the problem is sound related there are usually some known words in
>>>> the summary line describing the problem, why not search for them? Why
>>>> do you think inventing a new keyword and adding it to the buch of bugs
>>>> is easier that correctly formulate the problem using right words in
>>>> the summary?
>>>>
>>> Well, at least searching is easier for a well defined keyword than for
>>> a free form summary line. With a keyword you wouldn't have to take
>>> into account differences in formulation like e.g. "audio" vs. "sound".
>>
>> Well, it's not that hard to have an agreement what "right" words to use.
>> A person able to add a keyword also should be able to correct the summary
>> according to "established standards".
>>
>>> That aside, it does seem to me that there's some overlap in
>>> functionality between keywords and components. I'm not quite sure how
>>> other people use the component field, but maybe we don't need both.
>>> Somewhat related, is it really useful to make the distinction between
>>> mmdevapi, winmm, dsound, etc. if it's mostly the same people working
>>> on those, and you practically need to debug a bug first before you can
>>> make that distinction anyway?
>>
>> It's easier for simple cases like crashes or regressions to set the component,
>> and I agree that adding keywords duplicating components should be discouraged,
>> and 'printing' is among of them.
>
> I'd be okay with removing printing, the component will obviously be
> wineps.drv or gdi32 for any printing bug (besides there aren't all
> that many printing bugs, and it's not seeing much activity).
>
IMHO, it should be an additional component sound-general, or sound-unknown, 
or better yet "unknown-sound". There are many areas like that, that require 
investigation by a person with knowledge of said area to properly set component.

With Wine growing we can't require every developer to peruse all bugs in 
bugzilla all the time. And searching for some specific bugs by their subject 
almost never returns correct component. Case in point - right now we have 
4468 bugs assigned to the unknown component. How many people actually go 
over those in attempt to investigate and set correct component?

While keywords & components overlap, more generic components will not 
overlap with specific ones. And if we name all of them "unknown-something" 
that will help user / bugzilla triage people to pick closer area for SMEs to 
do more detailed investigation.

To begin with I propose to create following components:
unknown-browser
unknown-core
unknown-d3d
unknown-gui
unknown-input
unknown-printing
unknown-sound

Probably forgot a few.

For triagers reassign bugs to area that looks close to the problem, unless 
exact issue is known. For SMEs (Subject Matter Experts) to look through bugs 
in their general area and reassign to more appropriate component.

Vitaliy.