Xen Community:
Henning Sprang, Mark Williamson, and I discussed the issue
of people reporting bugs in the Bugzilla system with no guarantee that anyone
was watching or working on the Bugzilla system. Several companies working on
the Xen hypervisor are leveraging Bugzilla to track and monitor issues but there
is no existing process to ensure that bugs entered by users or developers
are being worked on. We are proposing the following process as a possible
solution and will start this process next week:
·
I will monitor the xen-bugs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
mailing list daily to see what bugs are entered.
·
I will filter out all “corporate”
bugs that are being entered by companies working on the hypervisor and will
follow-up with the bug creator of non “corporate” bugs to ensure that
the data entered is complete for a developer to understand and reproduce the
problem.
·
Mark will do a review of the bug reported to
ensure that it is in fact a system issue which needs developer attention
·
I will send an email 1x per week to xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
mailing list with all the bugs that are open for developer attention
·
Any developer interested in working on a bug
from the list can either update Bugzilla themselves or work with me to ensure
that the fix is documented and the bug is closed when work is complete
If you have any additional comments, please feel free to add
them to this discussion on xen-community@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
or contact me directly at the email address below. Thanks.
Stephen
Spector
Sr.
Program Manager, Xen.org
954.267.2853
stephen.spector@xxxxxxx