On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 11:30:08AM +0100, Timo Aaltonen wrote:
> 12.01.2012 04:25, Peter Hutterer kirjoitti:
> > Trawling through my xorg bugs yesterday I found a few that were filed
> > against the Input/wacom component at bugs.freedesktop.org. This was created
> > ages ago, when Ping and I were talking about moving the driver over to
> > freedesktop.org in general. We decided to stay with sf.net in the end to
> > avoid too big a break for our users (this discussion happened ~2 years ago
> > or so)
> >
> > However, given sf's issue tracker moving to the freedesktop.org bugzilla
> > seems quite tempting. I personally find the issue tracker horrible.
> > There are a few advantages in using bugs.freedesktop.org:
> > - bugzilla is somewhat of a standard when it comes to bugreporting
> > - cross-referencing/reassigning bugs is easier between other components such
> >    as the X server
> > - tighter integration with xorg in general. X.org hackers tend to look at
> >    the bugzilla, they don't look at our sf page.
> > - better references: http://bugs.freedesktop.org/12345 vs
> >    
> > http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3456195&group_id=69596&atid=525124
> >
> > Disadvantages:
> > - this should only be done for the xf86-input-wacom component (and xsetwacom
> >    bugs), kernel bugs should not go there (or at least would require a
> >    different component).
> > - users would need to create a user account separate from sf.net
> > - technically off-site (I doubt that matters)
> >
> > And other things I missed. What's the general feeling on it?
> 
> As a distro maintainer: yes please.
> 
> would libwacom have a component of it's own?

yeah, definitely. i'm tempted to even put xsetwacom into a separate
component though I'm not sure how smart that would be.

Cheers,
  Peter

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