-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Cooperative Bug Isolation for Fedora 14 Date: Wed, 03 Nov 2010 12:05:43 -0500 From: Ben Liblit liblit@cs.wisc.edu Reply-To: users@lists.fedoraproject.org To: fedora-announce-list@redhat.com
The Cooperative Bug Isolation Project (CBI) is now available for Fedora 14. CBI (http://www.cs.wisc.edu/cbi/) is an ongoing research effort to find and fix bugs in the real world. We distribute specially modified versions of popular open source software packages. These special versions monitor their own behavior while they run, and report back how they work (or how they fail to work) in the hands of real users like you. Even if you've never written a line of code in your life, you can help make things better for everyone simply by using our special bug-hunting packages.
We currently offer instrumented versions of Evolution, The GIMP, GNOME Panel, Gnumeric, Liferea, Nautilus, Pidgin, Rhythmbox, and SPIM. Download at http://www.cs.wisc.edu/cbi/downloads/. We support PackageKit, yum, apt, and many other RPM updater tools; see http://www.cs.wisc.edu/cbi/downloads/repo-config.html for customized configuration help for any of our supported distributions and updater tools. Or just download and install http://www.cs.wisc.edu/cbi/downloads/rpm/fedora-14-i386/RPMS.tools/cbi-package-config-14-10.i686.rpm
to automatically configure most popular RPM updaters to use the CBI repository.
It's that easy! Tell your friends! Tell your neighbors! The more of you there are, the more bugs we can find.
We still offer CBI packages for earlier releases as well, going all the way back to Fedora 1. When and if you decide to upgrade to Fedora 14, we'll be ready for you. Until then, your participation remains valuable even on older distributions.
-- Dr. Ben, the CBI guy