Hi there wine list this is not going to be a request for help as much as it's a request for how I can help the wine developers. I've got some time over the next couple of weeks and a stack of applications I want to see if I can get running under wine. I thought if I started testing a whole bunch of things I might be able to gather some useful test data for the wine developers as a way to get familiar with the guts of debugging wine, debug flags etc. So what I'm trying to do is get some advice on is what the best way to aggregate the data into something that would be most useful for the wine development team, apart from submitting bug reports and putting the apps into the appdb, to help. I was thinking something like cat app_wine_debug_outputs | sort | uniq > aggregated_bug_report to try and establish the most common problems with the things I install. This did not seem to quite fit into the qa guidelines http://kegel.com/wine/qa/ when I read them, so I thought I'd ask the list for some advice. I don't actually care if the apps run or not, just the common test data. At first I'm going to go after as many games as I can get my hands on and focus on graphics(y) things first to make the linux gaming experience better for the kids (Oh and probably some app's my girlfriend uses too). I'm a long time linux user (since about 1996 and *ix back to 1987), I can code in C, and I've configured the graphics card properly on my machine and been doing the compile/install/uninstall cycle of most wine versions since about 0.9.30. I use fedora (7) and the machines profile can be view here... http://www.smolts.org/show?UUID=24722f66-4368-447f-8f84-4bc4bab09bff I've been lurking and maintaining the odd application I started by maintaining Star Wars: Empire at war http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=3164 (but I still can't get it working under fedora!!!) My ISP is offering me unmetered downloads so if anyone wants me to download one of the trial games here (and there are a lot) http://www.gamearena.com.au/games/browse.php drop me an email with a link and I'll give it a go. Maybe the appdb already does this but my goal is to try and locate the most common wine bugs across as broad a range of games I can get, I've noticed some common things to do with gecko for example. I've already installed a bunch of games and will be updating the appdb and bugzilla shortly. I'm hoping I can make some useful contribution. Thanks all. Games installed so far Star Wars Battlefront Star Wars Republic Commando Star Wars Empire at War StarTopia After the end Battlestar Gallactica Luxor 3 The Arcade Math Blaster 6-8 Astrobatics Oasis Brainversity About to install Rogue Spear Rome:Total War _______________________________________________ wine-users mailing list wine-users@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.winehq.org/mailman/listinfo/wine-users
