Re: A version number for all of GNOME [Was: random thought about bug-buddy]

[Luis Villa <louie ximian com>]

On Mon, 2002-07-08 at 12:45, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="Luis Villa">
> 
> > Hopefully :) Dave Fallon is working on adding a GNOME version field to
> > bugzilla; with luck, this will help this task immensely. But it is still
> > going to take a lot of reworking of the bugzilla infrastructure.
> 
> But we have version fields for each product that we can use (though I can
> understand why we might shy away from that).

That still doesn't solve the problem at hand, which is 'Wayne wants to
support gfoo 1.4, Ximian/Sun wants to support gfoo 2.0, and 1337 H8X0R X
wants to support gfoo 2.2.' You can replace 1.4, 2.0 and 2.2 with
whatever version strings you want, but however you slice it, Wayne,
$VENDOR, and $H*X0R are all still getting each others bug mail. And
hacking bugzilla to solve that is... well, it would be a fun hack. But
you guys might not see me and/or DaveF for a while, and the resultant UI
would just get worse.

> I think the concept of "GNOME version", and how our component packages
> relate to it, needs some serious thought. Certainly it would make bug
> tracking and user support simpler, and may assist the release process.
> 
> "Hmm." :-)

There was a pretty long discussion on the general concept of 'GNOME
Version' this in late January or February, which resulted in some
blessed soul putting in:

/usr/share/gnome-about/gnome-version.xml

I'd really, really like to see bug-buddy read and report /all/ this
data, and I'd like to see all the vendors updating it in their packages,
esp. vendor string (which would make finding vendor-patch crashes much,
much easier.) 

Luis