Kenneth Graunke <kenn...@whitecape.org> writes: > On Friday, March 9, 2018 12:12:28 PM PDT Mark Janes wrote: > [snip] >> I've been doing this for Intel. Developers are on the hook to fix their >> bugs, but you can't make them do it. They have many pressures on them, >> and a maintainer can't make the call as to whether a rendering bug is >> more important than day-1 vulkan conformance, for example. >> >> We could heighten the transparency of what is blocking the build by >> publicizing the authors of bisected blocking bugs to Phoronix, which >> might get things moving. > > I hope you're being sarcastic here, or else I'm misunderstanding your > proposal. Public shaming of developers who create bugs has absolutely > no place in the Mesa community, IMHO. It would foster the kind of toxic > community that none of us want to be a part of.
You are correct, it was a stupid thing to write. I don't have any *good* ideas for getting the release branch to a point where we can meet our goals for users. > Sometimes, people who create bugs are the very people that work the > hardest, who the project may not even exist without. Would you want > to chew out someone for creating a bug in a Vulkan driver when...if it > weren't for that person, you wouldn't have a Vulkan driver at all? Or, > maybe they caused a couple bad bugs...but also fixed hundreds of them. > > Other times, they're new contributors or volunteers who do this, not as > their day job. Frankly, those people are under no obligation to help us > at all, so we need to thank them and appreciate the time and effort they > spend - and give them a hand fixing things when they're too busy, or > don't have the relevant hardware or skill to track down a regression. > > It's easy to be pissed off when there are bugs, and things seem to not > be making progress, but let's try and keep things positive and work > together to make Mesa the best we can. It's true that I spend too much time looking at bugs. I will often lose whole days to coping with regressions, and it has made me cranky over time. _______________________________________________ mesa-dev mailing list mesa-dev@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/mesa-dev
