RFC: Adding distribution field to Bugzilla

[Jerome Leclanche]

I don't think it matters, really. Any of this.

I've been using github a lot more in newer projects and I have grown a
certain dislike of Bugzilla, especially of the *amount of information*
we ask of users. It is in fact quite therapeutic to be able to submit
a bug by filling it in a couple of seconds. To see what I mean:

https://bugs.winehq.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Wine

We ask for a component, 99% of which most users will have no idea
about. Severity, which not only isn't taken seriously on the winehq
bugzilla but also users should have no say in. A plethora of OSes when
95%+ will be Linux and most of the others OSX. Hardware, which almost
never matters (and when it does, is usually set wrong). And then on
top of all this, we ask people to spend time creating output files
rather than paste with a very unfriendly red STOP sign.

Don't get me wrong, this is one of the better bugzilla UIs I've seen.
But it's still horrible.

I know I haven't been active in Wine lately but here is a couple
pennies worth of feedback: If distro patches to Wine truly become
problematic, it's a sign of an area that should be prioritized. And if
those patches are so low quality that they create a host of problems
but are still deemed critical enough by the distros to be included,
then those bugs that are filed *will* matter and those patches should
really be improved. Realistically though, how often does it matter,
and is it significant enough to make *everyone* go through yet another
field when filing a new bug?
J. Leclanche


2014-10-07 23:27 GMT+02:00 Rosanne DiMesio <dimesio at earthlink.net>:
> On Tue, 7 Oct 2014 13:17:32 -0500
> Austin English <austinenglish at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Howdy everyone,
>>
>> I'd like to add a distribution field to Bugzilla, to make it easier to
>> identify when users may have additional patches installed by their
>> distribution and/or other distribution specific issues (e.g.,
>> https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35413). It would be a drop down
>> selection, with the major distributions listed (i.e., ArchLinux, Debian,
>> Fedora, Gentoo, Mint, RedHat, Slackware, Suse, Ubuntu, other).
>>
>> Comments/feedback welcome.
>>
>
> I like the idea, but one thing that might cause problems is the issue of how to classify Ubuntu derivatives. There are lots of them, they don't all have "buntu" in their names, but they do generally use the Ubuntu Wine packages. Are those users supposed to pick "Ubuntu" or "Other"?
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> Rosanne DiMesio <dimesio at earthlink.net>
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