I want to start Bug Triagging for HAL

[Ratnadeep Debnath]

@Sonaguy

Hi,
I have gone through the list of components for triagging, and I want to start
triagging for HAL. I would like to know if there are any tips or
special requests
regarding bug triagging hal.

Regards,
rtnpro

[Adam Williamson]

On Mon, 2009-11-30 at 07:22 +0530, Ratnadeep Debnath wrote:
> @Sonaguy
>
> Hi,
> I have gone through the list of components for triagging, and I want to start
> triagging for HAL. I would like to know if there are any tips or
> special requests
> regarding bug triagging hal.

it may not be the best component to start with, since it's rapidly being
obsoleted in favour of other things (udev, devicekit-power,
devicekit-disks).

If you still want to work on it, I'd suggest you talk to David Zeuthen -
davidz on IRC - about how he'd like you to handle it. He's the developer
and so he should be able to tell you what kind of info he needs on bugs
and so on. One thing that's often needed is the HAL console log, which
you get by killing the normal running hald process and running hald from
a console as root, with this command:

hald --daemon=no --verbose=yes

then reproducing whatever the problem is, and pasting all the messages
that the console hald process prints.

[Ratnadeep Debnath]

Hi,
> it may not be the best component to start with, since it's rapidly being
> obsoleted in favour of other things (udev, devicekit-power,
> devicekit-disks).

Thanks for your advice.
I'd first like to get started with BugZapper. Could you suggest a component
that will be good for a BugZapper newbie to start with. There's a lot in the
BugZapper component list, so I'm confused which one to select.

Regards,
rtnpro

[Matthias Clasen]

On Tue, 2009-12-01 at 15:58 +0530, Ratnadeep Debnath wrote:
> Hi,
> > it may not be the best component to start with, since it's rapidly being
> > obsoleted in favour of other things (udev, devicekit-power,
> > devicekit-disks).
>
> Thanks for your advice.
> I'd first like to get started with BugZapper. Could you suggest a component
> that will be good for a BugZapper newbie to start with. There's a lot in the
> BugZapper component list, so I'm confused which one to select.

One thing that would be very useful to triage in hal is that people file
e.g. disk management or power management bugs against hal, just because
they are used to hal being responsible for this. A lot of these bugs
ought to be moved to DeviceKit-{disks,power} in F12.