Re: [hatari-devel] Bugtracker proposal

[Nicolas Pomarède <npomarede@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Le 07/12/2011 18:47, Matthias Arndt a écrit :
> Hello,
>
> Am Dienstag, den 06.12.2011, 20:54 +0100 schrieb Thomas Huth:
> > > regarding the fact that we don't have an official bugtracker for
> > > Hatari now. I suggest that we simply keep an HTML file along with the
> > > documentation and update it.
> >
> > That's a good idea, but we already got a compatibility.html and todo.txt
> > file in the doc directory, where we list problems with programs/demos
> > and other todo items. I somehow dislike the idea of having yet
> > another file where we track things that have to be done. For generic
> > bugs (not related to programs), we could also simply add a "bugs"
> > section in the todo.txt file.
>
> I agree. That would be a start and as helpful. I also see it is already
> linked from the manual. Maybe that link could be made more prominent?
>
> What do the others think? Esp. Nicolas who is constanly investigating
> possible bugs filed by nash67 at atari-forum.com?

Hello

I think that between 2 releases, we might encounter a lot of problems, 
but they will usually be fixed before releasing, so only a limited 
number of issues would remain in the end (maybe 20-30 games/demos from 
what I remember now, so not that much, games often tend to be fixed more 
quickly because the remaining demos problems require a lower level 
emulation with more "details").

Given that the list would be rather small, I think an HTML file might be 
too "big" for that ; adding this to the "todo.txt" seems more 
reasonnable to me.

In the same way, I think we could add a more detailled description in 
the release-notes.txt file, with a full (or at least big enough) list of 
all games/demos/programs that are known to be fixed with this specific 
release : many users might not know that fixing FDC or shifter for 
example imply that game A or demo B now works.

Some users could also know that game A is broken since hatari 1.4, so by 
looking at release-notes.txt they could see immediatly if the release 
fixes it.


Regards

Nicolas