Re: Bug tracking / Release Quality Assurance

[Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>]

On Mon, Oct 07, 2002 at 09:12:05AM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
>    From: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
>    Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2002 18:03:28 +0200 (CEST)
> 
>    1. I believe we should not ship GCC 3.2.1 (or branch 3.3.) until this
>       bug count has been significantly reduce.
>    
>    2. I suggest that we close PRs that have been in feedback state but
>       not received any response for more than 6 months:
>    
>       Examples: 3931, 4650, 5971, 5515, 6545
>    
>    3. We probably need some (further) volunteers who monitor GNATS more
>       closely, ask submitters for further information/feedback and ping
>       maintainers concerning problems in their areas.
> 
> I agree on #1 and #2, but I'm not so sure #3 is going to help
> all that much.
> 
> If maintainers aren't finding enough time to monitor GNATS in their
> particular area, it is likely they are overloaded enough that some
> volunteer pinging them they have stuff to look at won't get it done.
> 
> The volunteer who does the "ask for more information" bit will need
> to be quite knowledgable.  But if you found such a person who isn't
> already taxed with GCC things to do, it would be useful to have
> them help in this area.

A lot of GNATS bugreports come with huge testcases. Trimming them into
testcases suitable for gcc testsuite (and at the same time into a size
in which they can be easily debugged) and where easily possible figuring
roughly what the bug area is would surely help IMNSHO.

	Jakub