Fedora too cutting edge?

[Lennart Poettering]

On Thu, 10.01.08 09:59, Jonathan Dieter (jdieter at gmail.com) wrote:

> On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 01:49 +0100, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> <snip>
> > I don't think this BZ excerpt is any good as argument for your
> > point. A big share of the bugs listed for PA are duplicates. BZ is
> > very good for burying people in vast amount of emails due to new or
> > updated bug reports. My main job is hacking on PA, not wading through
> > BZ. Which is why I tend to ignore bugzilla as good as I can and clean
> > it up only just before every release.
> <snip>
> 
> I really appreciate what you do with pulseaudio, but I'm not quite sure
> what to make of this comment.  What do you want us to do if we come
> across a pulseaudio bug?

Report it via BZ or PA BTS! (Exactly like you did)

I ask everyone to be patient, though. I do fix look at those bug
reports and fix them, but only shortly before the next release.

The point of my mail is just that statistics about the "buggyness" of
software based on bugzilla data is bogus.

> For example, when pulseaudio is running as a system-wide daemon, any
> games using Alsa start to stutter after a few minutes.  In single-user
> mode, they work perfectly.  I opened a bug for this a month ago
> ( https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=417681 ), and I've not
> gotten any response yet.  Now I realize this is probably a low-priority
> for you, but I guess I was hoping for at least an ACK.

Uh, system-wide mode is not really supported anyway. On Fedora I chose
to setup PA as a session service, and that's what is supported. But
that's a different story. 

> Will you eventually get around to looking at it or is BZ redirected
> to /dev/null for you (which is how I read the above excerpt, though it
> may not be what you meant).

I clean up BZ everytime I do a new release. "Clean up" as in "fix all
relevant bugs".

> Please understand I'm not trying to jump on you, I just want to know the
> best way of reporting a bug to you.

Use BZ or the PA BTS -- You did everything right!

Thanks,

Lennart

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