Fwd: Tracking bugs in Frameworks

[Sebastian Kügler]

On Monday, December 16, 2013 19:30:25 Martin Graesslin wrote:
> On Monday 16 December 2013 19:01:25 David Edmundson wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 6:08 PM, Martin Graesslin <mgraesslin at kde.org> 
> > > On Monday 16 December 2013 11:58:35 David Edmundson wrote:
> > >> I think if we did that it would be a good idea to prefix the names
> > >> with a common element like
> > >> "frameworks-coreaddons" "frameworks-kio" etc.
> > >
> > > I don't think it needs the prefix. For a description, we have the
> > > product
> > > description in bugzilla. So that should be fine. We don't have users who
> > > report bugs against frameworks directly, they neither know "kio" nor
> > > "frameworks- kio". For our triaging team it shouldn't matter much and
> > > from us developers I expect that we know it.
> >
> > I disagree.
> >
> > We will (hopefully) have a lot of developers who use Frameworks who
> > are not 'KDE' reporting bugs on the parts they do use. 
> 
> You mean 3rd party developers using e.g. KF5Archive? In that case I expect 
> that
> a) they know that they use KArchive
> b) they will use Ctrl+F to find it in the product list. Hey even I do that
> to  get to KWin, I'm not scrolling a list of hundreds of products starting
> with "K". It would be just the same with a prefix frameworks.
> 
> > Having the
> > frameworks scattered over a huge list of 'noise'  when they are sorted
> > alphabetically would be really annoying. Certainly when I have to
> > update all the versions in bugzilla after a release I do not want to
> > have to go hunting to find all of them.
> 
> No, you don't want to create those versions in the first place. If we have
> to  create a version for each of the frameworks manually through the web
> interface we do something wrong.
> 
> > That said, I don't want to bikeshed over what isn't a particularly
> > massive point. Maybe someone can make an executive decision.

Let's go for the prefix.

Here's my reasoning: if we have a list to choose from, users will see a huge 
load of generic names (Archive, to name one). If it's prefixed with 
frameworks, or maybe framework-, it's much easier to dismiss it, and scroll 
down to the right application (or component). I think it's also clear to those 
that use our libraries, which is an important (new) target group.

> neither do I and this time I cannot bring the argument that you have no
> clue  about bugzilla to silence your argument :-P So executive decision
> sounds fine.

You can claim that I have no clue about bugzilla, and you'd be right. But 
there's your executive decision. Feel free to ignore it. :-)

Cheers,
-- 
sebas

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