On 06/29/10 13:23, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
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):
I like the idea... but would we be better off re-directing through
a web page we control, so this information could be updated? While
we can issue re-directs for sun.com to oracle.com for example, it would
be more difficult to reroute open source URLs when those bug tracking
systems change.
- Bart
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Bart Smaalders Solaris Kernel Performance
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