I am regularly asked where to file bugs for various pieces of
the OS - even before we had two bug trackers, the mapping of
software to bugster categories was non-obvious for many components,
and even today, many engineers end up having to find the source
code for a component, then checking the scm history to lookup
previous commits to see where they were filed.
For end-users, it's much harder, and we often get completely junk
categories picked by users filing bugs in bugs.opensolaris.org and
defect.opensolaris.org as a result.
I know JDS already has this data in their spec files, and SFW in
their metadata files - exporting from there to pkg manifests should
make it easier for bug reports to get from users to developers &
maintainers - the package manager gui could even offer links to
open the web browser with the right links to search & file bugs.
(Though for that it would either need a database of bug trackers,
or an additional field such as info.defect_tracker.type=bugzilla
to know how to form the proper URL's.)
I propose we define these attributes (to be added to
doc/tags-and-attributes.txt):
info.defect_tracker.url
URL of a defect tracking system for this package
info.defect_tracker.category
One or more categorization tuples for the listed
defect tracking system for the software in this package.
May be as specific or generic as needed to incorporate
the software in this package.
info.upstream_defect_tracker.url
URL of a defect tracking system for the upstream
software incorporated in this package.
info.upstream_defect_tracker.category
One or more categorization tuples for the listed
upstream defect tracking system for the software.
Examples would be:
pkg:/package/pkg
set name=info.defect_tracker.url \
value=https://defect.opensolaris.org/
set name=info.defect_tracker.category \
value=Development/pkg
pkg:/package/pkg/package-manager
set name=info.defect_tracker.url \
value=https://defect.opensolaris.org/
set name=info.defect_tracker.category \
value=Development/pkg/gui
pkg:/system/kernel
set name=info.defect_tracker.url \
value=http://bugs.opensolaris.org/
set name=info.defect_tracker.category \
value=solaris/kernel value=solaris/driver
pkg:/SUNWcs
set name=info.defect_tracker.url \
value=http://bugs.opensolaris.org/
set name=info.defect_tracker.category \
value=solaris/utility
file usr/has/bin/sh info.defect_tracker.category=solaris/shell/bourne
file usr/bin/csh info.defect_tracker.category=solaris/shell/cshell
file usr/bin/ksh93 info.defect_tracker.category=solaris/shell/korn93
pkg:/x11/server/xorg
set name=info.defect_tracker.url \
value=http://bugs.opensolaris.org/
set name=info.defect_tracker.category \
value=solaris/xserver/xorg-server
set name=info.upstream_defect_tracker.url \
value=https://bugs.freedesktop.org/
set name=info.upstream_defect_tracker.category \
value=xorg/Server/general value=xorg/DDX/xorg
pkg:/developer/gnome/gettext
set name=info.defect_tracker.url \
value=http://defect.opensolaris.org/
set name=info.defect_tracker.category \
value=development/gnome/libraries
set name=info.keyword value=pkg-config \
info.upstream_defect_tracker.url=https://bugs.freedesktop.org/ \
info.upstream_defect_tracker.category=pkg-config
set name=info.keyword value=intltool \
info.upstream_defect_tracker.url=https://bugs.launchpad.net/intltool
set name=info.keyword value=gnome-common \
info.upstream_defect_tracker.url=https://bugzilla.gnome.org/ \
info.upstream_defect_tracker.category="classification=Other;product=gnome-common"
--
-Alan Coopersmith- [email protected]
Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System
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