Re: [opensuse-factory] High number of serious bugs in GNOME

2007-09-05 Thread Dirk Mueller
On Tuesday, 4. September 2007, Druid wrote:

 As far as I know, KDE is included in SLED too.

Thats correct :)

 Or does that 
 mean that the KDE guys doesnt put much effort in SLED?

We have put a lot of effort into SLED. For example, we have written a beagle 
frontend and knetworkmanager for it. 

Greetings,
Dirk
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Re: [opensuse-factory] High number of serious bugs in GNOME

2007-09-04 Thread Andreas Jaeger
Rajko M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 On Monday 03 September 2007 13:06, Alberto Passalacqua wrote:
  And for instance:
  301716Cri P5 open NEW Pidgin segfaults when sending
  AIM message to yourself.
 
  Taking the type of application is it really critical?
  Is that mean that critical is used for any crash?

 Funny, indeed.

 The reporter is Bryan Perry @ Novell, so it is probably considered
 important.

 It might be the company policy to set critical if application crashes, I have 
 seen such comment in one of bugs that you can find on the list. If you look 
 the list than you can see few similar reports. Later I'm going to see more, 
 but if there are many of the above kind GNOME is safe :-)

I'm not aware of something - let's downgrade this bug,

Andreas
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Re: [opensuse-factory] High number of serious bugs in GNOME

2007-09-04 Thread Gary Ekker

On Sun, 2007-09-02 at 17:52 +0200, Alberto Passalacqua wrote:
 Hello everyone,
 during a discussion on IRC it emerged that GNOME still has a very high
 number of blockers and critical bugs.
 As it can be seen here:
 
 https://bugzilla.novell.com/report.cgi?x_axis_field=y_axis_field=componentz_axis_field=query_format=report-tableshort_desc_type=allwordssubstrshort_desc=long_desc_type=fulltextlong_desc=classification=openSUSEproduct=openSUSE+10.3bug_file_loc_type=allwordssubstrbug_file_loc=status_whiteboard_type=allwordssubstrstatus_whiteboard=keywords_type=anywordskeywords=bug_status=NEWbug_status=ASSIGNEDbug_status=NEEDINFObug_status=REOPENEDbug_severity=Blockerbug_severity=Criticalemailassigned_to1=1emailtype1=substringemail1=emailassigned_to2=1emailreporter2=1emailqa_contact2=1emailcc2=1emailtype2=substringemail2=bugidtype=includebug_id=votes=chfieldfrom=chfieldto=Nowchfieldvalue=format=tableaction=wrapfield0-0-0=nooptype0-0-0=noopvalue0-0-0=
 
 GNOME + Evolution has 26 of them. 
 Plus, from bugzilla it appears that GNOME + GNOME Admin/Platform +
 Evolution have 201 bugs:
 
 https://bugzilla.novell.com/report.cgi?x_axis_field=y_axis_field=componentz_axis_field=query_format=report-tableshort_desc_type=allwordssubstrshort_desc=long_desc_type=fulltextlong_desc=classification=openSUSEproduct=openSUSE+10.3bug_file_loc_type=allwordssubstrbug_file_loc=status_whiteboard_type=allwordssubstrstatus_whiteboard=keywords_type=anywordskeywords=bug_status=NEWbug_status=ASSIGNEDbug_status=NEEDINFObug_status=REOPENEDbug_severity=Blockerbug_severity=Criticalbug_severity=Majorbug_severity=Normalbug_severity=Minoremailassigned_to1=1emailtype1=substringemail1=emailassigned_to2=1emailreporter2=1emailqa_contact2=1emailcc2=1emailtype2=substringemail2=bugidtype=includebug_id=votes=chfieldfrom=chfieldto=Nowchfieldvalue=format=tableaction=wrapfield0-0-0=nooptype0-0-0=noopvalue0-0-0=
 
 Considering the short time before the final release (~1 month), I think
 it would be helpful to know the actual situation of the fixes, and if
 there's enough time to solve all these issues before the release date.

Yes we still have time to resolve the critical and blocker bugs, as well
as many of the majors.

-Gary

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Re: [opensuse-factory] High number of serious bugs in GNOME

2007-09-04 Thread Gary Ekker

On Sun, 2007-09-02 at 22:02 +0100, Francis Giannaros wrote:
 On 9/2/07, Bernhard Walle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  * Alberto Passalacqua [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-09-02 17:52]:
   during a discussion on IRC it emerged that GNOME still has a very high
   number of blockers and critical bugs.
 
  GNOME will be updated before release.
 
 Perhaps you could clarify what this means? Is it hoped that the
 updates and final release will solve all the 200+ bugs? The only
 reason I ask about this is because I notice around the place the
 general sense from some users of neglect for GNOME in openSUSE, which
 I know is certainly as a statement unfair; but I can see why some of
 them might question things when you take a look at comparative figures
 like this (GNOME 200+ with a lot of blockers, KDE just 64, and dealing
 with a web browser).

There are only 12 GNOME bugs of severity critical and blocker. I'm
confident that we can resolve those before the release of 10.3.

 
 It would be a real shame to have GNOME slip behind as it did in 10.2
 which I think everyone will agree was not ideal.

None of us want that and we are working hard to ensure that it doesn't
happen with 10.3.

-Gary

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Re: [opensuse-factory] High number of serious bugs in GNOME

2007-09-04 Thread Gary Ekker

On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 10:52 +0200, Richard Guenther wrote:
 On Sun, 2 Sep 2007, Francis Giannaros wrote:
 
  On 9/2/07, Bernhard Walle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
   * Alberto Passalacqua [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-09-02 17:52]:
during a discussion on IRC it emerged that GNOME still has a very high
number of blockers and critical bugs.
  
   GNOME will be updated before release.
  
  Perhaps you could clarify what this means? Is it hoped that the
  updates and final release will solve all the 200+ bugs? The only
  reason I ask about this is because I notice around the place the
  general sense from some users of neglect for GNOME in openSUSE, which
  I know is certainly as a statement unfair; but I can see why some of
  them might question things when you take a look at comparative figures
  like this (GNOME 200+ with a lot of blockers, KDE just 64, and dealing
  with a web browser).
  
  It would be a real shame to have GNOME slip behind as it did in 10.2
  which I think everyone will agree was not ideal.
 
 I suppose for the quality of GNOME it would be more helpful if people
 would report issues upstream.  At least if the perception is correct
 that bugs in openSUSE GNOME are only fixed by pulling new releases
 from upstream.

That perception is not accurate. Although we are tracking some of these
bugs upstream and taking the fixes from the upstream release as they
become available.

-Gary

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Re: [opensuse-factory] High number of serious bugs in GNOME

2007-09-04 Thread Gary Ekker

On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 11:47 +0200, Alberto Passalacqua wrote:
  I suppose for the quality of GNOME it would be more helpful if people
  would report issues upstream.  At least if the perception is correct
  that bugs in openSUSE GNOME are only fixed by pulling new releases
  from upstream.
 
 That's ok, but it should have been clarified at the beginning of the
 development stage, I think. Now, 17 days before the release, it is
 probably too late to get them fixed for 2.20, which will be included in
 openSUSE 10.3.
 
 Moreover, on what basis should we distinguish between GNOME bugs to
 report upstream, and GNOME bugs to report on bugzilla?

The best thing to do is to report it here so that we are aware of the
bug.

-Gary

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Re: [opensuse-factory] High number of serious bugs in GNOME

2007-09-04 Thread JP Rosevear

On Sun, 2007-09-02 at 17:52 +0200, Alberto Passalacqua wrote:
 Hello everyone,
 during a discussion on IRC it emerged that GNOME still has a very high
 number of blockers and critical bugs.
 As it can be seen here:
 
 https://bugzilla.novell.com/report.cgi?x_axis_field=y_axis_field=componentz_axis_field=query_format=report-tableshort_desc_type=allwordssubstrshort_desc=long_desc_type=fulltextlong_desc=classification=openSUSEproduct=openSUSE+10.3bug_file_loc_type=allwordssubstrbug_file_loc=status_whiteboard_type=allwordssubstrstatus_whiteboard=keywords_type=anywordskeywords=bug_status=NEWbug_status=ASSIGNEDbug_status=NEEDINFObug_status=REOPENEDbug_severity=Blockerbug_severity=Criticalemailassigned_to1=1emailtype1=substringemail1=emailassigned_to2=1emailreporter2=1emailqa_contact2=1emailcc2=1emailtype2=substringemail2=bugidtype=includebug_id=votes=chfieldfrom=chfieldto=Nowchfieldvalue=format=tableaction=wrapfield0-0-0=nooptype0-0-0=noopvalue0-0-0=
 
 GNOME + Evolution has 26 of them. 
 Plus, from bugzilla it appears that GNOME + GNOME Admin/Platform +
 Evolution have 201 bugs:
 
 https://bugzilla.novell.com/report.cgi?x_axis_field=y_axis_field=componentz_axis_field=query_format=report-tableshort_desc_type=allwordssubstrshort_desc=long_desc_type=fulltextlong_desc=classification=openSUSEproduct=openSUSE+10.3bug_file_loc_type=allwordssubstrbug_file_loc=status_whiteboard_type=allwordssubstrstatus_whiteboard=keywords_type=anywordskeywords=bug_status=NEWbug_status=ASSIGNEDbug_status=NEEDINFObug_status=REOPENEDbug_severity=Blockerbug_severity=Criticalbug_severity=Majorbug_severity=Normalbug_severity=Minoremailassigned_to1=1emailtype1=substringemail1=emailassigned_to2=1emailreporter2=1emailqa_contact2=1emailcc2=1emailtype2=substringemail2=bugidtype=includebug_id=votes=chfieldfrom=chfieldto=Nowchfieldvalue=format=tableaction=wrapfield0-0-0=nooptype0-0-0=noopvalue0-0-0=
 
 Considering the short time before the final release (~1 month), I think
 it would be helpful to know the actual situation of the fixes, and if
 there's enough time to solve all these issues before the release date.


I'll answer the original mail, but I'll collect thoughts related to
other replies here too.  For the GNOME bugs in particular at least there
are several issues causing the count to be high and not well maintained:

1) We (as the GNOME maintainers) have not been good at redirecting bugs
upstream.  We do have the keyword should_go_upstream in use which
indicates what we want to upstream it and resolve it in the opensuse
bugzilla, but we've been slow to do this though and its something we've
not publicized and that was probably wrong.

2) We have not been good at grading bug severity, generally severity has
been left at whatever the filer put it, although Blocker/Critical/Major
have undergone more scrutiny in 10.3 at least.

Further complicating this is that we (as a project) do not define
severity well for instance from what I could find:
http://en.opensuse.org/Bug_Reporting_FAQ
http://en.opensuse.org/Submitting_Bug_Reports

Only one mentions severity but its a brief reference to blocker.  The
ones on the Novell bugzilla are also weak:
https://bugzilla.novell.com/page.cgi?id=fields.html#bug_severity

3) We (as the GNOME maintainers who work for Novell) have traditionally
not focused on openSUSE much, rather spending most of our time on SLED.
This improved for 10.3 and well continue to improve, but we lagged a
little more than we thought due to SP1 of SLED 10.

4) As some one else mentioned, you almost never close out all the bugs
for release

Now, not one to simply list problems with out a solution, here on some
positives:

1) I've been monitoring the count, its been trending down over the last
three weeks (including major and above)

2) There are a number of easy packaging related things
(bnc-team-gnome-build) we can pick off before 10.3

3) Mark Gordon a Novell QA person has been able to spend a lot more time
triaging and moving bugs upstream over the last several weeks

4) Of the criticals, only 3 have not been active (generally activity
means they are getting attention on the way to a fix) in the last week
and they are:

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=299331
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=299005

Both being worked on by hpj as part of a larger set of help fixes
(rarian integration), its just a big mess atm because we have to tie
this help system into the suse help system which is based on how kde
discovers help files and our older patches broke big time.  We should
look at the for 10.4

Thats good and all , but it doesn't go all the way of course - 
Gary Ekker has been getting some better bug criteria created for
understanding when we should upstream, wontfix, invalid, etc.  Its for
both SLED and openSUSE, we did a test run last week and it worked
reasonably well.  I think Gary would like to publish these soon for
GNOME at least, just a bit of hesitation to push them out at this point
in the release cycle.  

Re: [opensuse-factory] High number of serious bugs in GNOME

2007-09-04 Thread Druid

 3) We (as the GNOME maintainers who work for Novell) have traditionally
 not focused on openSUSE much, rather spending most of our time on SLED.
 This improved for 10.3 and well continue to improve, but we lagged a
 little more than we thought due to SP1 of SLED 10.


Seems one of those very traditional traditions that goes through
centuries and more centuries, and generations and more generations.

As far as I know, KDE is included in SLED too. How come KDE doesnt
have those problems of too much focus in SLED? What can we expect of
that? That the gnome in opensuse is barely maintained? Or does that
mean that the KDE guys doesnt put much effort in SLED?

thanks

Marcio Ferreira
---
Druid


 4) As some one else mentioned, you almost never close out all the bugs
 for release

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Re: [opensuse-factory] High number of serious bugs in GNOME

2007-09-04 Thread Andreas Jaeger
Druid [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:


 3) We (as the GNOME maintainers who work for Novell) have traditionally
 not focused on openSUSE much, rather spending most of our time on SLED.
 This improved for 10.3 and well continue to improve, but we lagged a
 little more than we thought due to SP1 of SLED 10.


 Seems one of those very traditional traditions that goes through
 centuries and more centuries, and generations and more generations.

 As far as I know, KDE is included in SLED too. How come KDE doesnt
 have those problems of too much focus in SLED? What can we expect of
 that? That the gnome in opensuse is barely maintained? Or does that
 mean that the KDE guys doesnt put much effort in SLED?

It's not as easy as you're thinking.

The KDE guys had some advantage with no major release for quite some
time.  Stabilizing KDE 3.5.x is much less work than stabilizing a major
release like KDE 4 - or GNOME 2.20.

So, there have been quite synergies between openSUSE and SLED on the KDE
side - something we could not benefit from with GNOME.  And that means
we have to do more work with GNOME and then you might focus...

I'm glad that the GNOME maintainers have already improve much working on
openSUSE,

Andreas
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Re: [opensuse-factory] High number of serious bugs in GNOME

2007-09-04 Thread JP Rosevear

On Tue, 2007-09-04 at 15:37 -0300, Druid wrote:
 
  3) We (as the GNOME maintainers who work for Novell) have traditionally
  not focused on openSUSE much, rather spending most of our time on SLED.
  This improved for 10.3 and well continue to improve, but we lagged a
  little more than we thought due to SP1 of SLED 10.
 
 
 Seems one of those very traditional traditions that goes through
 centuries and more centuries, and generations and more generations.
 
 As far as I know, KDE is included in SLED too. How come KDE doesnt
 have those problems of too much focus in SLED? What can we expect of
 that? That the gnome in opensuse is barely maintained? Or does that
 mean that the KDE guys doesnt put much effort in SLED?

I think its fair to say that in the past its been paid less attention
than the GNOME in SLED, although I would rate it as higher than barely
maintained.  But things like features, polish, maintenance updates, etc
have been targeted at SLED not openSUSE for development cycles.

All I can say is: if you're a KDE user on openSUSE doesn't affect you
much :-).

If you're a GNOME use drop by our list or irc channel and help keep us
on track just like Alberto did by sending the original mail :-).


-JP
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Re: [opensuse-factory] High number of serious bugs in GNOME

2007-09-03 Thread Richard Guenther
On Sun, 2 Sep 2007, Francis Giannaros wrote:

 On 9/2/07, Bernhard Walle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  * Alberto Passalacqua [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-09-02 17:52]:
   during a discussion on IRC it emerged that GNOME still has a very high
   number of blockers and critical bugs.
 
  GNOME will be updated before release.
 
 Perhaps you could clarify what this means? Is it hoped that the
 updates and final release will solve all the 200+ bugs? The only
 reason I ask about this is because I notice around the place the
 general sense from some users of neglect for GNOME in openSUSE, which
 I know is certainly as a statement unfair; but I can see why some of
 them might question things when you take a look at comparative figures
 like this (GNOME 200+ with a lot of blockers, KDE just 64, and dealing
 with a web browser).
 
 It would be a real shame to have GNOME slip behind as it did in 10.2
 which I think everyone will agree was not ideal.

I suppose for the quality of GNOME it would be more helpful if people
would report issues upstream.  At least if the perception is correct
that bugs in openSUSE GNOME are only fixed by pulling new releases
from upstream.

Richard.
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Re: [opensuse-factory] High number of serious bugs in GNOME

2007-09-03 Thread Alberto Passalacqua
 I suppose for the quality of GNOME it would be more helpful if people
 would report issues upstream.  At least if the perception is correct
 that bugs in openSUSE GNOME are only fixed by pulling new releases
 from upstream.

That's ok, but it should have been clarified at the beginning of the
development stage, I think. Now, 17 days before the release, it is
probably too late to get them fixed for 2.20, which will be included in
openSUSE 10.3.

Moreover, on what basis should we distinguish between GNOME bugs to
report upstream, and GNOME bugs to report on bugzilla?

With kind regards,
Alberto

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Re: [opensuse-factory] High number of serious bugs in GNOME

2007-09-03 Thread Florin Samareanu

On Mon, 2007-09-03 at 11:47 +0200, Alberto Passalacqua wrote:

 
 That's ok, but it should have been clarified at the beginning of the
 development stage, I think. Now, 17 days before the release, it is
 probably too late to get them fixed for 2.20, which will be included in
 openSUSE 10.3.
 
 Moreover, on what basis should we distinguish between GNOME bugs to
 report upstream, and GNOME bugs to report on bugzilla?
 

Since the number of bugs i see in opensuse 10.3 is quite high (and i am
affected by at least 5 different _annoying_ bugs: g-p-m not showing
suspend/hibernate for laptops, /dev/null permissions after hibernate,
btdownloader not working, iwl3945 breaking suspend ... etc) i personally
would like to see the release postponed rather then releasing something
that you know won`t work almost perfectly (like 10.2 did).

 With kind regards,
 Alberto
 
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Re: [opensuse-factory] High number of serious bugs in GNOME

2007-09-03 Thread Richard Guenther
On Mon, 3 Sep 2007, Alberto Passalacqua wrote:

  I suppose for the quality of GNOME it would be more helpful if people
  would report issues upstream.  At least if the perception is correct
  that bugs in openSUSE GNOME are only fixed by pulling new releases
  from upstream.
 
 That's ok, but it should have been clarified at the beginning of the
 development stage, I think. Now, 17 days before the release, it is
 probably too late to get them fixed for 2.20, which will be included in
 openSUSE 10.3.
 
 Moreover, on what basis should we distinguish between GNOME bugs to
 report upstream, and GNOME bugs to report on bugzilla?

Usually for GCC (which is what I'm working on) I monitor the upstream
bugzilla for bugs affecting the openSUSE compiler as well as making
sure that bugs filed on the Novell bugzilla are forwarded upstream.

This is ideally the way it should work for all bugs filed in Novell
bugzilla if there is upstream development and bugreporting infrastructure.

To what extent this happens for GNOME bugs at the moment I don't know,
but I am sure that help from the community to improve the situation with
Novell-bugzilla-only bugreports would be appreciated.  Maybe our
GNOME people can clarify their policy?

Thanks,
Richard.
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Re: [opensuse-factory] High number of serious bugs in GNOME

2007-09-03 Thread Boyd Lynn Gerber
On Mon, 3 Sep 2007, Richard Guenther wrote:
 On Mon, 3 Sep 2007, Alberto Passalacqua wrote:
   I suppose for the quality of GNOME it would be more helpful if people
   would report issues upstream.  At least if the perception is correct
   that bugs in openSUSE GNOME are only fixed by pulling new releases
   from upstream.
 
  That's ok, but it should have been clarified at the beginning of the
  development stage, I think. Now, 17 days before the release, it is
  probably too late to get them fixed for 2.20, which will be included in
  openSUSE 10.3.
 
  Moreover, on what basis should we distinguish between GNOME bugs to
  report upstream, and GNOME bugs to report on bugzilla?

 Usually for GCC (which is what I'm working on) I monitor the upstream
 bugzilla for bugs affecting the openSUSE compiler as well as making
 sure that bugs filed on the Novell bugzilla are forwarded upstream.

 This is ideally the way it should work for all bugs filed in Novell
 bugzilla if there is upstream development and bugreporting infrastructure.

 To what extent this happens for GNOME bugs at the moment I don't know,
 but I am sure that help from the community to improve the situation with
 Novell-bugzilla-only bugreports would be appreciated.  Maybe our
 GNOME people can clarify their policy?

This looks like an other 10.1 fiasco.  I really do not want to see a
repeat of the mistakes.  From what I see in bugzilla there are too many
bugs to really release on schedule.  I think the release needs to be
postponded.

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Re: [opensuse-factory] High number of serious bugs in GNOME

2007-09-03 Thread Henne Vogelsang
Hi,

On Monday, September 03, 2007 at 06:58:14, Boyd Lynn Gerber wrote:

 From what I see in bugzilla there are too many bugs to really release
 on schedule. I think the release needs to be postponded.

If we would always draw in our horns because of this we would still be
in the process of releasing 4.2.

Guys we still have 17 days until RC1. Relax...

Henne 

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Re: [opensuse-factory] High number of serious bugs in GNOME

2007-09-03 Thread Robert Kaiser

Henne Vogelsang wrote:

On Monday, September 03, 2007 at 06:58:14, Boyd Lynn Gerber wrote:


From what I see in bugzilla there are too many bugs to really release
on schedule. I think the release needs to be postponded.


If we would always draw in our horns because of this we would still be
in the process of releasing 4.2.

Guys we still have 17 days until RC1. Relax...


Right. And after all, this is only GNOME and everybody reasonable uses 
KDE anyways (because it has much less bugs, for example) :P


To be serious, I'm working myself in project management of a software 
project (which is even shipped with openSUSE), and there will probably 
always be an impressive list of bugs left in any release. As long as 
those are things one can live with, it's probably even OK.


From what I read here, the reporting of bugs to the upstream GNOME bug 
database does not work as well as it could, so the first step for anyone 
who complains here should be to verify all problems he sees _are_ 
reported upstream. That is usually the first step for getting them fixed 
also in the final release (or a bugfix release afterwards) and therefore 
also in the version shipped in the distro.


Reporting bugs back to the upstream project is a vital step, and we in 
the projects making the software itself sometimes get bitten by that not 
being done - so please everyone who actually sees such problems, go out 
and try forwarding the bugs upstream and comment the upstream bug ID in 
the openSUSE bug, that helps more than complaining here.


Robert Kaiser
SeaMonkey developer
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Re: [opensuse-factory] High number of serious bugs in GNOME

2007-09-03 Thread Rajko M.
On Sunday 02 September 2007 10:52:54 am Alberto Passalacqua wrote:
 Hello everyone,
 during a discussion on IRC it emerged that GNOME still has a very high
 number of blockers and critical bugs.
 As it can be seen here:

The numbers seems to be lower today.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/report.cgi?x_axis_field=y_axis_field=componentz_axis_field=query_format=report-tableshort_desc_type=allwordssubstrshort_desc=long_desc_type=fulltextlong_desc=classification=openSUSEproduct=openSUSE+10.3bug_file_loc_type=allwordssubstrbug_file_loc=status_whiteboard_type=allwordssubstrstatus_whiteboard=keywords_type=anywordskeywords=bug_status=NEWbug_status=ASSIGNEDbug_status=NEEDINFObug_status=REOPENEDbug_severity=Blockerbug_severity=Criticalemailassigned_to1=1emailtype1=substringemail1=emailassigned_to2=1emailreporter2=1emailqa_contact2=1emailcc2=1emailtype2=substringemail2=bugidtype=includebug_id=votes=chfieldfrom=chfieldto=Nowchfieldvalue=format=tableaction=wrapfield0-0-0=nooptype0-0-0=noopvalue0-0-0=

 GNOME + Evolution has 26 of them.

Now 23

 Plus, from bugzilla it appears that GNOME + GNOME Admin/Platform +
 Evolution have 201 bugs:

https://bugzilla.novell.com/report.cgi?x_axis_field=y_axis_field=componentz_axis_field=query_format=report-tableshort_desc_type=allwordssubstrshort_desc=long_desc_type=fulltextlong_desc=classification=openSUSEproduct=openSUSE+10.3bug_file_loc_type=allwordssubstrbug_file_loc=status_whiteboard_type=allwordssubstrstatus_whiteboard=keywords_type=anywordskeywords=bug_status=NEWbug_status=ASSIGNEDbug_status=NEEDINFObug_status=REOPENEDbug_severity=Blockerbug_severity=Criticalbug_severity=Majorbug_severity=Normalbug_severity=Minoremailassigned_to1=1emailtype1=substringemail1=emailassigned_to2=1emailreporter2=1emailqa_contact2=1emailcc2=1emailtype2=substringemail2=bugidtype=includebug_id=votes=chfieldfrom=chfieldto=Nowchfieldvalue=format=tableaction=wrapfield0-0-0=nooptype0-0-0=noopvalue0-0-0=

Now 189

 Considering the short time before the final release (~1 month), I think
 it would be helpful to know the actual situation of the fixes, and if
 there's enough time to solve all these issues before the release date.

I looked further:
https://bugzilla.novell.com/buglist.cgi?action=wrapbug_file_loc=bug_file_loc_type=allwordssubstrbug_id=bug_severity=Blockerbug_severity=Criticalbug_status=NEWbug_status=ASSIGNEDbug_status=NEEDINFObug_status=REOPENEDbugidtype=includechfieldfrom=chfieldto=Nowchfieldvalue=classification=openSUSEemail1=email2=emailassigned_to1=1emailassigned_to2=1emailcc2=1emailqa_contact2=1emailreporter2=1emailtype1=substringemailtype2=substringfield0-0-0=noopkeywords=keywords_type=anywordslong_desc=long_desc_type=fulltextproduct=openSUSE%2010.3short_desc=short_desc_type=allwordssubstrstatus_whiteboard=status_whiteboard_type=allwordssubstrtype0-0-0=noopvalue0-0-0=votes==component=GNOME

And for instance:
301716Cri P5 open NEW Pidgin segfaults when sending AIM 
message to yourself. 

Taking the type of application is it really critical?
Is that mean that critical is used for any crash?  

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Re: [opensuse-factory] High number of serious bugs in GNOME

2007-09-03 Thread Alberto Passalacqua
 This looks like an other 10.1 fiasco.  

I don't think so. As Henne said, we are still in beta stage. That's why
I asked how fixes are progressing.

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Re: [opensuse-factory] High number of serious bugs in GNOME

2007-09-03 Thread Alberto Passalacqua
 Right. And after all, this is only GNOME and everybody reasonable uses 
 KDE anyways (because it has much less bugs, for example) :P

I don't agree. We had already a buggy GNOME, to the limit of being
unusable, on 10.2. I would like not to see that again in 10.3.

 To be serious, I'm working myself in project management of a software 
 project (which is even shipped with openSUSE), and there will probably 
 always be an impressive list of bugs left in any release. As long as 
 those are things one can live with, it's probably even OK.

I wrote about critical and blockers.

 Reporting bugs back to the upstream project is a vital step, and we in 
 the projects making the software itself sometimes get bitten by that not 
 being done - so please everyone who actually sees such problems, go out 
 and try forwarding the bugs upstream and comment the upstream bug ID in 
 the openSUSE bug, that helps more than complaining here.

Reporting on Novell bugzilla is what is required by openSUSE developers.
Noone never talked of reporting bugs upstream too. If that's the desired
behaviour, it should be clarified.
Moreover, it think it would be easier if this task is done directly by
the developer to whom the bug in Novell bugzilla is assigned. He would
be automatically subscribed to the bug report made upstream, and he is
surely able to provide more complete information.

Regards,
Alberto

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Re: [opensuse-factory] High number of serious bugs in GNOME

2007-09-03 Thread Alberto Passalacqua

 And for instance:
 301716Cri P5 open NEW Pidgin segfaults when sending AIM 
 message to yourself. 
 
 Taking the type of application is it really critical?
 Is that mean that critical is used for any crash?  

Funny, indeed. 

The reporter is Bryan Perry @ Novell, so it is probably considered
important.

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A.

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Re: [opensuse-factory] High number of serious bugs in GNOME

2007-09-03 Thread Rajko M.
On Monday 03 September 2007 13:06, Alberto Passalacqua wrote:
  And for instance:
  301716Cri P5 open NEW Pidgin segfaults when sending
  AIM message to yourself.
 
  Taking the type of application is it really critical?
  Is that mean that critical is used for any crash?

 Funny, indeed.

 The reporter is Bryan Perry @ Novell, so it is probably considered
 important.

It might be the company policy to set critical if application crashes, I have 
seen such comment in one of bugs that you can find on the list. If you look 
the list than you can see few similar reports. Later I'm going to see more, 
but if there are many of the above kind GNOME is safe :-)

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[opensuse-factory] High number of serious bugs in GNOME

2007-09-02 Thread Alberto Passalacqua
Hello everyone,
during a discussion on IRC it emerged that GNOME still has a very high
number of blockers and critical bugs.
As it can be seen here:

https://bugzilla.novell.com/report.cgi?x_axis_field=y_axis_field=componentz_axis_field=query_format=report-tableshort_desc_type=allwordssubstrshort_desc=long_desc_type=fulltextlong_desc=classification=openSUSEproduct=openSUSE+10.3bug_file_loc_type=allwordssubstrbug_file_loc=status_whiteboard_type=allwordssubstrstatus_whiteboard=keywords_type=anywordskeywords=bug_status=NEWbug_status=ASSIGNEDbug_status=NEEDINFObug_status=REOPENEDbug_severity=Blockerbug_severity=Criticalemailassigned_to1=1emailtype1=substringemail1=emailassigned_to2=1emailreporter2=1emailqa_contact2=1emailcc2=1emailtype2=substringemail2=bugidtype=includebug_id=votes=chfieldfrom=chfieldto=Nowchfieldvalue=format=tableaction=wrapfield0-0-0=nooptype0-0-0=noopvalue0-0-0=

GNOME + Evolution has 26 of them. 
Plus, from bugzilla it appears that GNOME + GNOME Admin/Platform +
Evolution have 201 bugs:

https://bugzilla.novell.com/report.cgi?x_axis_field=y_axis_field=componentz_axis_field=query_format=report-tableshort_desc_type=allwordssubstrshort_desc=long_desc_type=fulltextlong_desc=classification=openSUSEproduct=openSUSE+10.3bug_file_loc_type=allwordssubstrbug_file_loc=status_whiteboard_type=allwordssubstrstatus_whiteboard=keywords_type=anywordskeywords=bug_status=NEWbug_status=ASSIGNEDbug_status=NEEDINFObug_status=REOPENEDbug_severity=Blockerbug_severity=Criticalbug_severity=Majorbug_severity=Normalbug_severity=Minoremailassigned_to1=1emailtype1=substringemail1=emailassigned_to2=1emailreporter2=1emailqa_contact2=1emailcc2=1emailtype2=substringemail2=bugidtype=includebug_id=votes=chfieldfrom=chfieldto=Nowchfieldvalue=format=tableaction=wrapfield0-0-0=nooptype0-0-0=noopvalue0-0-0=

Considering the short time before the final release (~1 month), I think
it would be helpful to know the actual situation of the fixes, and if
there's enough time to solve all these issues before the release date.

With kind regards,
Alberto



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Re: [opensuse-factory] High number of serious bugs in GNOME

2007-09-02 Thread Bernhard Walle
* Alberto Passalacqua [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-09-02 17:52]:
 during a discussion on IRC it emerged that GNOME still has a very high
 number of blockers and critical bugs.

GNOME will be updated before release.



Thanks,
   Bernhard
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Re: [opensuse-factory] High number of serious bugs in GNOME

2007-09-02 Thread Francis Giannaros
On 9/2/07, Bernhard Walle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 * Alberto Passalacqua [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-09-02 17:52]:
  during a discussion on IRC it emerged that GNOME still has a very high
  number of blockers and critical bugs.

 GNOME will be updated before release.

Perhaps you could clarify what this means? Is it hoped that the
updates and final release will solve all the 200+ bugs? The only
reason I ask about this is because I notice around the place the
general sense from some users of neglect for GNOME in openSUSE, which
I know is certainly as a statement unfair; but I can see why some of
them might question things when you take a look at comparative figures
like this (GNOME 200+ with a lot of blockers, KDE just 64, and dealing
with a web browser).

It would be a real shame to have GNOME slip behind as it did in 10.2
which I think everyone will agree was not ideal.

Kind thoughts,
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