On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Sven Neumann wrote: > Dave Neary <dave.neary@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > Personally it got me lookign at bugzilla (a habit that has since > > lapsed), and looking at the thread it seemed to lead to the resolution > > of a fair few bugs. Do people think that doing this on a regular (say > > monthly) basis would be a good idea? And if so, who would do it? (note > > that I'm not volunteering - it's just something I was thinking about :) > > I could be persuaded to, perhaps - or maybe some of the people who've > > done a bit more with bugzilla might consider it? > > yeah, sure go ahead. Creating reasonable bugzilla queries and posting > the result would definitely not hurt. It might help to get more people > working with Bugzilla. Bugzilla is a great tool but using it for a large > project like The GIMP requires a reasonable amount of maintainance work.
Two weeks ago, I added a list of useful Bugzilla queries at the bottom of the download page for the developers' version of the Gimp: http://www.gimp.org/devel_ver.html The links allow you to see the list of open bugs or wish lists, for all versions or only for the stable or unstable versions. The bug reports in which the version number is "unspecified" are assumed to be related to one of the stable versions. Once you have the result of the query, you can easily sort it by clicking on the column headers in the results page (personally, the first thing I did with Bugzilla was to click the "Change Columns" link, add the Changed Date and Reporter columns, and then sort by date).
When I have some spare time, I will also try to add more specific queries (Windows only, all OSs but Windows, Linux only, ...). For the curious who have an account on wilber, these links are generated semi-automatically from a set of definitions that can be found in the file /gimp00/web-gimp/defines/links_bugs.def.
> Let alone the fact that someone needs to fix the bugs...
Very true. You are doing a great job. ;-)
-Raphael
