On Wed, 2004-01-07 at 10:09, Jef Spaleta wrote:
But the more general topic of how to get users interacting with bugzilla effectively, is something worthy of discussion. Right now I'm getting ready to focus my very limited talents at trying to come up with a Fedora specific variation of the Gnome bug squad guidelines for testing and bug hunting. I have have a very dim hope of getting my crap together in time, to have a draft out for test1 beta testing. I've been spending some time nagging developers on irc for ideas, like boilerplate responses and bug hunting tips and experimenting with calls for focused functionality testing and doing community triage commenting. All these sorts of things are variants of what Gnome is doing with the bug squad. So my short term plan is to have some sort of reasonable useful testing guideline draft in place to float to testers for FC2 test releases. A test of the testing guidelines. I just need to get my crap together and mock up a draft. And i could really use help on that, because I'm no technical writer.
Maybe I'm speaking for myself only, but my biggest issue so far is the number of bugzilla's a person will have to deal with. For Fedora alone there's redhat's and fedora US.
But (with good reason) many FC1 bugs are handled with a comment to 'submit the bug to the upstream maintainer' so I immediately have to add mozilla and ximian and every other active project that I have interest in and spend effort on debugging.
It's just too many accounts. For my part, the biggest help would be a trusted gateway between some of these big bugzilla so tha I could log in to redhat's, enter a bug, and then toggle a switch that says "list with upstream maintainer". (On the same idea, a trusted gateway to sourceforge would probably be useful).
Is this sort of thing conceivably possible?