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Re: Possible additional Bugzilla components
On 01/26/2018 01:10 PM, Joseph Myers wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Jan 2018, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
>
>> On 01/24/2018 08:57 AM, Joseph Myers wrote:
>>> Looking at the large number of miscellaneous open bugs in the "libc"
>>> component, I'd like to suggest a few more possible Bugzilla components for
>>> distinct groups of those bugs:
>>>
>>> argparse - Command-line argument parsing (argp and getopt)
>>
>> Agreed.
>>
>>> crypt - libcrypt and related cryptographic functionality
>>
>> Agreed.
>
> I've now created those components, and moved 10 bugs to argparse and 7 to
> crypt.
>
> I do not know whether any of the bugs in argparse have fixes already
> available in the gnulib code (if they do, we'd probably still want to add
> glibc testcases when merging such fixes from gnulib).
>
> FWIW, the numbers of open bugs by component are currently:
>
> libc 204
> dynamic-link 117
> network 103
> nptl 82
> localedata 80
> locale 66
> manual 54
> stdio 53
> build 45
> malloc 41
> math 36
> regex 29
> time 29
> string 19
> nscd 17
> nss 14
> librt 12
> argparse 10
> glob 8
> admin 7
> crypt 7
> nis 6
> hurd 5
> soft-fp 2
> buildbot 1
>
> and while there may be more groups that could meaningfully be split out of
> "libc", I don't see any likely scope for such splits of the other
> components with many open bugs.
Agreed.
Review of libc might reveal more useful splitting for triage.
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Cheers,
Carlos.