Re: whole cygwin release/ distribution issues

[Reini Urban <rurban at x-ray dot at>]

Christopher Faylor schrieb:
> On Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 10:16:51PM +0200, Reini Urban wrote:
> > Ah, I see.  You meant something different.  Just a bugzilla or mantis
> > "Know issues" site.  A bugtracker.  Couldn't ITP's be tracked also
> > then?
> >
> > Hmm, I'll think of it.  I'd need shell access to sourceware then.
>
> You wouldn't need shell access to use bugzilla.
>
> > > We could use bugzilla, I suppose, and let everyone maintain things, but
> > > the prospect of that has always scared me after our experience with the
> > > cygwin todo list.  I can see carefully setting up categories for bug
> > > reporting and then seeing "setup not work" in the cygwin DLL category.
> >
> > Very good idea.  But I didn't setup bugzilla lately.  Heard it got
> > better.
>
> We already have bugzilla on sourceware.  I even started setting up some
> cygwin categories a while ago before I started scaring myself by
> imagining the scenarios of cygwin users actually using bugzilla.
>
> I'm sure that there is something frighteningly non-obvious about
> bugzilla's use which, while we receive no complaints for gcc, eCos, or
> any other project, would cause brain aneurysms for some cygwin users and
> would cause an increase in email traffic here.
>
> Regardless, it's probably time to consider using a formal method to
> track problems.  The distribution has surely gotten big enough for that.
>
> Actually, I think that one of the 3+ developers even volunteered to
> help maintain bugzilla when I mentioned this on cygwin-developers.

Ok. Just an additional entry in the "Product" list
at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/

Ok, I volunteer to admin this.
Though I believe someone with shell acces to bugzilla could do it better:
* setup maintainer accounts,
* automatic mail to package maintainer on tracker updates,
* automatic sync with some TBD package maintainership
  package - email list
* automatic sync of the bugzilla Cygwin Components with
  the package list.

My account is this email account of mine.
Maybe other developers are interested also.

Product: add "Cygwin"

Version:
  Should probably be based on the cygwin dll versions:
         1.3.x
         1.5.10
         1.5.11
         latest snapshot

The Components have to be synched with the package list (setup.ini). 
This should be done automatically.
The rest can stay as is.
--
Reini Urban
http://xarch.tu-graz.ac.at/home/rurban/

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