Use Bugtrackers

Marcin Juszkiewicz December 1st, 2005

From time to time I have to moderate comments and during that I notice that many users use comments system instead of bugtrackers. This way we will lose many errors or fixes because time which we have to spend on checking all source where users complain result in less time used for bugfixing, developing.

If you flashed OpenZaurus and something does not work then report it in OpenEmbedded bugtracker with info which machine you have, which distro, which flavour of distro (opie/gpe/bootstrap) and how you find bug, is it reproductable etc. Too much info is better then too less.

You do not have to be a developer to report but if you find a bug and not report it then do not complain about it.

4 Responses to “Use Bugtrackers”

  1. # koenon 01 Dec 2005 at 13:10

    Don’t forget to look if it was reported first. http://bugs.openembedded.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=350 contains the bugs we need to fix before 3.5.4

  2. # Skliarouk Ariehon 04 Dec 2005 at 09:52

    Sorry for garbled post. What I meant is:

    Just two more questions, can you define please, which bugs should go to BTS (Bug tracking system) of openembedded.org and which bugs should go to BTS of handhelds.org?

    Is there any reason the two BTSes are not combined into single one?

  3. # Hrwon 06 Dec 2005 at 10:27

    Basically there are 3 bugtrackers: OE, OPIE, Handhelds.org (where GPE, ipkg and some others reside).

    If bug is in OPIE then raport it in their bugtracker, if it is in GPE then in handhelds.org/bugzilla/ and if problem is in base system, dependencies then it is OE problem.

    Why they are split? They are other projects, other people (some people are in each project anyway).

  4. # Olivier Bergeron 11 Dec 2005 at 11:15

    Hmmm… also, it would be great if the bugs reported in the bugtracker were aknowleged somehow, so that reporters would have a better feeling that it will be useful for developers ;)