I just filed a bug that apparently lives in xfree-4.3.0-r1, and assigned it to the KDE component. Somebody thought that was a stupid thing to do, which seems fair enough, but I didn't find anything more appropriate in the components list under the product "Gentoo Linux". The other three candidates were: - Core system (nah; xfree is not included in a standard Gentoo stages install) - Library (nah; xfree does not strike me as "a library") - Unspecified (may be least inappropriate, but it just seemed like a copout :) The gears of bug submission might run smoother if there were a direct, explicit mapping from the first level of the portage tree, to the set of components in the Gentoo Linux product. The "Core system" component already leans that way; its description says "those in sys-*/". There would probably be fewer incorrect initial assignments if that mapping were fully defined, i.e. if I could just look at a table and conclude something like "oh, my problem is in x11-*/, so it apparently belongs in the X11 component". That would probably involve defining some more components (e.g. there is currently no X11 component :)
Daniel, seemant, what do you think?
we are working on a way to reorganize development efforts, and bugzilla is key to this. please stand by and see the changes happen ;)
Yes, the herds project will take care of this very soon.
old bug
Old, but has not been addressed in any way that I know about! Has there been any such reorganization of development efforts? At least it is still just as badly-defined where bugs should be filed, as it was when I filed this bug.
the herds project is under way right now
