RFC: Adding distribution field to Bugzilla

[Scott Ritchie]

Ubuntu "flavors" (*buntu in the name) all use the same package pool
directly, and users sophisticated enough to post a bug report are generally
aware they're using an Ubuntu version.  I support all of them.

Ubuntu derivatives (such as mint and elementary os) might use binary copies
of the packages, might do rebuilds, and might replace certain packages.
They should be listed as either "other" or their own category if they're
popular enough for bugzilla purposes (mint in particular).  I don't support
them.

On Tue, Oct 7, 2014 at 2:27 PM, Rosanne DiMesio <dimesio at earthlink.net>
wrote:

> On Tue, 7 Oct 2014 13:17:32 -0500
> Austin English <austinenglish at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 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"?
>
>
> --
> Rosanne DiMesio <dimesio at earthlink.net>
>
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-devel/attachments/20141007/6a87f0c6/attachment.html>