Re: FC5T2 - not ready for prime time.

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Rahul Sundaram wrote:

We'll start with "it's painfully slow."

I'm on dialup, it seems like it takes minutes to do an enquiry.


I used it on dialup on several occasions and I dont see this problem. Of couse its slower than when being used in a T1 connection.

<shrug>
It's a problem here. I'd have ADSL except I'm out of its reach. I rarely have the luxury of a dialup line with nothing else on it.


We'll proceed to "its UI is cumbersome." Especially for those not already familiar with it. If you make changes, don't rely on experienced users to evaluate it, get some tyros, people you'd like to enrol as helpers for the future. I could also mention, "it's confusing." Some of the problem, I think, is in Red Hat's implementation and the way its ordered the data. If I want to report a problem in the kernel, let me identify the kernel, maybe kernel-2.6.10-1.760_dl3, and you can match it up with your view of the "product."


You need to be much more specific than that. Can you produce mockups of what the interface and workflow of what you believe is needed?

Not really. I've done almost no UI design in almost 30 years.



I've also used Debian's BTS: while it's not brilliant, it can search for matching bugs, and it can work offline without referent to the master database. Since Debian has way more packages & architectures than RH/Fedora, I presume the size of its database isn't a problem from its performance perspective.


I am not sure. Database performance is a definite bottleneck on many occasions


On Debian's BTS?


OTOH I note Ubuntu uses BZ so maybe developers don't like it so well.


Maybe. We cant use presumptions to change a working product.

Feel free to ask mdz @ ubuntu.com - he could tell you.


One of the things you might like about bts is that it's a script that runs on the user system which is usually the one with the problem, and it can get some basic information about the software installed and the hardware in use. For the users' peace of mind, it allows her to see what's being said, and on her okay, mails it to the bts.


I dont think Red Hat or Fedora is going to dump its entire history of bugs to move into bts unless bts is far more advanced and provides capabilities that cannot be inherited into bugzilla.


I don't think I said any thing of that kind.



Would that help Mike Harris sort out video problems? I think it would.

Not sure what video problems you are talking about. Got a bug report? Why dont you ask him whether dumping bugzilla is what is needed to fix any video problems?. He is not in this list but he is on fedora-devel list and hangs out all the time in #fedora-devel.

As I recall, Mike spends most of his life these days fighting bugs in xorg software, much as he has since he was hired, I little before Valhalla I think. Whenever anyone has a hardware-related problem (or question), the first question is "What's the hardware?" I know, I ask it on fedora-list often enough, two or three times today at a guess. Surely, Mike asks it too?



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