Fedora bugzilla usage guidelines, workflow, etc.

[Alexander Todorov]

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Good afternoon all,
I'm writing a sort of "Introduction to FOSS for newbies" with a bit
practical
aspect. I'd like to cover testing a bit more and wanted to know if there's
something describing in details bugzilla terms of use, bug states, etc, etc.
So far I was able to find:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugsAndFeatureRequests

which links to many pages and seems useful at first glance. As it will take me
lots of time to go through all of it I'd rather ask if there are any resources
not linked from this page. i.e. I'm looking for a document that says:
* if you're proposing new feature the start the summary line with [RFE] ...
* if it's performance problem then [Performance] yum is slow

you get the point.

There's lots to be written about testing in general but I want to give starters
a good pointer so that they not end with making a crappy report which nobody
will ever see (and hence they'll back off of testing all together).

Thanks,
Alexander.
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[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 05:00:20PM +0300, Alexander Todorov wrote:
>  Good afternoon all,
>  I'm writing a sort of "Introduction to FOSS for newbies" with a bit 
>  practical aspect. 
If you're intending to cover interaction with upstream projects,
as well as Fedora interaction, then Richard Jones has already
written a useful document for patch submission

http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/how-to-supply-code-to-open-source-projects/

>  I'd like to cover testing a bit more and wanted to know if
> there's
>  something describing in details bugzilla terms of use, bug states, etc, etc.
>  So far I was able to find:
>  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugsAndFeatureRequests 
There state workflow is described here:

  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/BugStatusWorkFlow

>  which links to many pages and seems useful at first glance. As it
> will take 
>  me
>  lots of time to go through all of it I'd rather ask if there are any 
>  resources
>  not linked from this page. i.e. I'm looking for a document that says:
>  * if you're proposing new feature the start the summary line with [RFE] ...
>  * if it's performance problem then [Performance] yum is slow 
This might give other useful hints:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/StockBugzillaResponses

Daniel
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[James Laska]

Greetings,

Bugzilla itself includes documentation, however it may not be for the
audience you are targeting.  For example:

 * Bug Writing Guidelines -
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/page.cgi?id=bug-writing.html
 * Upstream bz documentation - http://www.bugzilla.org/docs/tip/en/html/

I know there's more ... but I can't find those links at the moment :(

Thanks,
James

On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 17:00 +0300, Alexander Todorov wrote:
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>  Good afternoon all,
>  I'm writing a sort of "Introduction to FOSS for newbies" with a bit
> practical
>  aspect. I'd like to cover testing a bit more and wanted to know if there's
>  something describing in details bugzilla terms of use, bug states, etc, etc.
>  So far I was able to find:
>  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugsAndFeatureRequests
>  
>  which links to many pages and seems useful at first glance. As it will take me
>  lots of time to go through all of it I'd rather ask if there are any resources
>  not linked from this page. i.e. I'm looking for a document that says:
>  * if you're proposing new feature the start the summary line with [RFE] ...
>  * if it's performance problem then [Performance] yum is slow
>  
>  you get the point.
>  
>  There's lots to be written about testing in general but I want to give starters
>  a good pointer so that they not end with making a crappy report which nobody
>  will ever see (and hence they'll back off of testing all together).
>  
>  Thanks,
>  Alexander.
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[James Laska]

On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 11:10 -0400, James Laska wrote:
>  Greetings,
>  
>  Bugzilla itself includes documentation, however it may not be for the
>  audience you are targeting.  For example:
>  
>   * Bug Writing Guidelines -
>  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/page.cgi?id=bug-writing.html 
  * Bugzilla documentation for the redhat instance of bugzilla -
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/docs/en/html/

Thanks to Dave Lawrence for the link :)

Thanks,
James

>   * Upstream bz documentation -
> http://www.bugzilla.org/docs/tip/en/html/
>  
>  I know there's more ... but I can't find those links at the moment :(
>  
>  Thanks,
>  James
>  
>  On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 17:00 +0300, Alexander Todorov wrote:
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>  > Good afternoon all,
>  > I'm writing a sort of "Introduction to FOSS for newbies" with a bit
> practical
>  > aspect. I'd like to cover testing a bit more and wanted to know if there's
>  > something describing in details bugzilla terms of use, bug states, etc, etc.
>  > So far I was able to find:
>  > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugsAndFeatureRequests
>  > 
>  > which links to many pages and seems useful at first glance. As it will take me
>  > lots of time to go through all of it I'd rather ask if there are any resources
>  > not linked from this page. i.e. I'm looking for a document that says:
>  > * if you're proposing new feature the start the summary line with [RFE] ...
>  > * if it's performance problem then [Performance] yum is slow
>  > 
>  > you get the point.
>  > 
>  > There's lots to be written about testing in general but I want to give starters
>  > a good pointer so that they not end with making a crappy report which nobody
>  > will ever see (and hence they'll back off of testing all together).
>  > 
>  > Thanks,
>  > Alexander.
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[John Poelstra]

Alexander Todorov said the following on 08/26/2008 07:00 AM Pacific Time:
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>  Good afternoon all,
>  I'm writing a sort of "Introduction to FOSS for newbies" with a bit 
>  practical
>  aspect. I'd like to cover testing a bit more and wanted to know if there's
>  something describing in details bugzilla terms of use, bug states, etc, 
>  etc.
>  So far I was able to find:
>  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugsAndFeatureRequests 
Also this link: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Bugzilla

>  which links to many pages and seems useful at first glance. As it
> will 
>  take me
>  lots of time to go through all of it I'd rather ask if there are any 
>  resources
>  not linked from this page. i.e. I'm looking for a document that says:
>  * if you're proposing new feature the start the summary line with [RFE] ...
>  * if it's performance problem then [Performance] yum is slow
>   
I believe you have the best pages which address your question, but it 
wouldn't surprise me if there are others :-).  I think we have a general 
problem in that this information is repeated and mixed with pages in 
other places too like QA and BugZappers.

John

[Alexander Todorov]

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John Poelstra wrote:
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| I believe you have the best pages which address your question, but it
| wouldn't surprise me if there are others :-).

~From the links folks sent me I start to think this too :), that was exactly what
I needed.


Thank you all,
Alexander.

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