On 06/06/2010 12:33 AM, Geoff Beasley wrote: > On 06/06/2010 04:58 AM, Patrick Shirkey wrote: >> >> I like this idea and I can see a place for it at Linuxaudio.org. A >> centralised feature/bug/infrastructure tracker.
If someone wants to step forward, hosting it under the umbrella (and on the server) of linuxaudio.org will be the least issue. >> I think the hardest part will be to isolate the most important >> information >> and present it in a very obvious way. This could easily get left high and >> dry by making the system too complex for the info that is being >> aggregated. Bug-tracking always requires user & developer interaction (confirm, reproduce, comment..). Merly aggregating or collecting information won't do much good. OTOH I really like the idea to improve interoperability between apps. >> A way to start the system could be to collate the info using rss feeds >> from the various bug trackers that are already in use. Testing this idea: http://planet.linuxaudio.org/bugs/ currently collects [only] ardour, jack & qtractor tracker's feeds. Imagine how this would look with over 50 projects. I doubt it would be very useful. But things could be improved by using more elaborate RSS/Atom feed queries.. Anyway, this is a one-way system. Users will need to use upstream-trackers to submit information. This somehow undermines the idea of providing feedback for interop issues at a central location. The easiest way to supplement this would be a linux-audio-bugs email-list or just re-use this list. > linuxaudio.org would indeed be a good place for such a tracker, and it > is indeed a good idea but for the issue of 'updatedness' ie; it would > need quite some effort to remain up-to-date and therefore relevant and > useful. If it slipped behind it could in fact have the opposite effect. > who would be prepared to undertake such a burden? it would need to be > completely automated as the amount of info could be quite substantial > quite quickly... seems to me the devil is in the detail. Indeed. Implementing a centralized cross-project bug & feature tracker - possibly with bounties - can become quite complex; not to mention it requires quite some effort to maintain it. Please proof me wrong. It'd be a great thing to have. robin _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-dev mailing list Linux-audio-dev@lists.linuxaudio.org http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-dev
