Re: Thoughts from a former KDE, currently Mozilla developer

2010-12-09 Thread Allan Sandfeld Jensen
On Tuesday 07 December 2010, George Kiagiadakis wrote: > On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 11:14 PM, Thiago Macieira wrote: > > On Tuesday, 7 de December de 2010 21:53:57 Benoit Jacob wrote: > >> 2010/12/7 Thiago Macieira : > >> > How are you going to properly find the stack without debug symbols? > >> > >

Re: Thoughts from a former KDE, currently Mozilla developer

2010-12-09 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 07:27:48PM -0800, Gary Greene wrote: > You might want to look at > http://code.google.com/appengine/articles/rietveld.html as it does a > fairly good job, and has a decent command line tool. > give us something like github patch queues and we talk business. hmm, maybe nokia

Re: Thoughts from a former KDE, currently Mozilla developer

2010-12-08 Thread Gary Greene
On 8 Dec 2010, at 8:55 AM, Thiago Macieira wrote: > Em Terça-feira, 7 de Dezembro de 2010, às 11:22:47, Benoit Jacob escreveu: >> * >> 1. Issue tracker (Mozilla) vs. Mailing lists (KDE). >> >> KDE uses a Mailing list for most its development discussion, and only >> uses trackers (bugzilla, r

Re: Thoughts from a former KDE, currently Mozilla developer

2010-12-08 Thread Pablo Sanchez
[ Comments below, in line ] On Wednesday 08 December 2010 at 12:54 pm, Aaron J. Seigo penned about "Re: Thoughts from a former KDE, currently Mozilla developer" > On Wednesday, December 8, 2010, Thiago Macieira wrote: > > One feature missing in Bugzilla is proper rich form

Re: Thoughts from a former KDE, currently Mozilla developer

2010-12-08 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Wednesday, December 8, 2010, Thiago Macieira wrote: > One feature missing in Bugzilla is proper rich formatting, like a wiki. or threaded conversations. like a mailing list. :) -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 KDE co

Re: Thoughts from a former KDE, currently Mozilla developer

2010-12-08 Thread Thiago Macieira
Em Quarta-feira, 8 de Dezembro de 2010, às 09:39:42, Benoit Jacob escreveu: > > Also, with > > enough debug symbols you won't be able to search for libGL anyway as > > the backtrace has references to source files only. > > How do you think that debuggers know the file? I think they just use > the m

Re: Thoughts from a former KDE, currently Mozilla developer

2010-12-08 Thread Thiago Macieira
Em Terça-feira, 7 de Dezembro de 2010, às 11:22:47, Benoit Jacob escreveu: > * > 1. Issue tracker (Mozilla) vs. Mailing lists (KDE). > > KDE uses a Mailing list for most its development discussion, and only > uses trackers (bugzilla, reviewboard) for specific tasks (user bug > reports, patch re

Re: Thoughts from a former KDE, currently Mozilla developer

2010-12-08 Thread todd rme
On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 3:01 PM, Thiago Macieira wrote: > On Tuesday, 7 de December de 2010 20:28:57 Benoit Jacob wrote: >> So do crash reports now automatically land in a database that's easy >> to do queries on? (See the web interface provided by Socorro) >> >> If I want to get a list of all KDE

Re: Thoughts from a former KDE, currently Mozilla developer

2010-12-08 Thread Benoit Jacob
2010/12/7 Andreas Pakulat : > On 07.12.10 14:28:57, Benoit Jacob wrote: >> If I want to get a list of all KDE crashes that happened in libGL.so*, >> how do I go about that? > > Thats more a problem of the tool we're using to track bugs, there's no > way to tell bugzilla that something is a backtrac

Re: Thoughts from a former KDE, currently Mozilla developer

2010-12-08 Thread Benoit Jacob
2010/12/8 Kevin Ottens : >> For smaller commits, it seems reasonable to demand that they don't cause >> regressions. For larger commits, it won't always be possible to test >> sufficiently for regressions before committing - there may be too many >> affected apps if a change is made in the librarie

Re: Thoughts from a former KDE, currently Mozilla developer

2010-12-08 Thread Kevin Ottens
On Wednesday 8 December 2010 15:09:38 David Jarvie wrote: > On Wed, December 8, 2010 8:38 am, Kevin Ottens wrote: > > On Wednesday 8 December 2010 02:51:46 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > >> On Tuesday, December 7, 2010, Benoit Jacob wrote: > >> > * > >> > 3. QA, Unit-testing, continuous testing (KDE:

Re: Thoughts from a former KDE, currently Mozilla developer

2010-12-08 Thread Benoit Jacob
2010/12/7 Aaron J. Seigo : >> * >> 2. Can one tell volunteers contributors what they should be working >> on? (KDE: no, Mozilla: yes) > > a nice bit of philosophy. imho: > > should we communicate what is needed to be worked on? yes. > should we make it "cool" to work on what is needed by offeri

Re: Thoughts from a former KDE, currently Mozilla developer

2010-12-08 Thread David Jarvie
On Wed, December 8, 2010 8:38 am, Kevin Ottens wrote: > On Wednesday 8 December 2010 02:51:46 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: >> On Tuesday, December 7, 2010, Benoit Jacob wrote: >> > * >> > 3. QA, Unit-testing, continuous testing (KDE: very little, Mozilla: a >> > lot) >> > >> > Let's face it, KDE has a

Re: Thoughts from a former KDE, currently Mozilla developer

2010-12-08 Thread Kevin Ottens
On Wednesday 8 December 2010 02:51:46 Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > On Tuesday, December 7, 2010, Benoit Jacob wrote: > > * > > 3. QA, Unit-testing, continuous testing (KDE: very little, Mozilla: a > > lot) > > > > Let's face it, KDE has always been deficient in the QA department. In > > > > order

Re: Thoughts from a former KDE, currently Mozilla developer

2010-12-07 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Tuesday, December 7, 2010, Benoit Jacob wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to share some hopefully interesting thoughts, from a > comparison of a few things in KDE and in Mozilla, in the hope that it > helps KDE borrow good ideas from elsewhere. thanks :) > * > 1. Issue tracker (Mozilla) vs. M

Re: Thoughts from a former KDE, currently Mozilla developer

2010-12-07 Thread Andreas Pakulat
On 07.12.10 14:28:57, Benoit Jacob wrote: > 2010/12/7 Andreas Pakulat : > > On 07.12.10 11:22:47, Benoit Jacob wrote: > >> * > >> 4. Crash reports handling (KDE: poor, Mozilla: good) > >>  * Have a look at Socorro, Mozilla's crash report tool: > > > > Your info is outdated I think, try out a KD

Re: Thoughts from a former KDE, currently Mozilla developer

2010-12-07 Thread Benoit Jacob
2010/12/7 Stephen Kelly : > Benoit Jacob wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I would like to share some hopefully interesting thoughts, from a >> comparison of a few things in KDE and in Mozilla, in the hope that it >> helps KDE borrow good ideas from elsewhere. >> >> * >> 1. Issue tracker (Mozilla) vs. Mail

Re: Thoughts from a former KDE, currently Mozilla developer

2010-12-07 Thread Thiago Macieira
On Tuesday, 7 de December de 2010 22:39:21 Boudewijn Rempt wrote: > I implemented a socorro server and integrated breakpad in the desktop app I > developed at Hyves. It was rather frightening, especially to maintain. And > it seemed to only work with binaries you create and distribute yourself -- >

Re: Thoughts from a former KDE, currently Mozilla developer

2010-12-07 Thread Boudewijn Rempt
On Tuesday 07 December 2010, Benoit Jacob wrote: > 2010/12/7 Thiago Macieira : > > On Tuesday, 7 de December de 2010 21:53:57 Benoit Jacob wrote: > >> 2010/12/7 Thiago Macieira : > >> > How are you going to properly find the stack without debug symbols? > >> > > >> > Imagine one frame that didn't k

Re: Thoughts from a former KDE, currently Mozilla developer

2010-12-07 Thread George Kiagiadakis
On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 11:14 PM, Thiago Macieira wrote: > On Tuesday, 7 de December de 2010 21:53:57 Benoit Jacob wrote: >> 2010/12/7 Thiago Macieira : >> > How are you going to properly find the stack without debug symbols? >> > >> > Imagine one frame that didn't keep the frame pointer properly?

Re: Thoughts from a former KDE, currently Mozilla developer

2010-12-07 Thread Benoit Jacob
2010/12/7 Thiago Macieira : > On Tuesday, 7 de December de 2010 21:53:57 Benoit Jacob wrote: >> 2010/12/7 Thiago Macieira : >> > How are you going to properly find the stack without debug symbols? >> > >> > Imagine one frame that didn't keep the frame pointer properly? >> >> If the stack is damaged

Re: Thoughts from a former KDE, currently Mozilla developer

2010-12-07 Thread Stephen Kelly
Benoit Jacob wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to share some hopefully interesting thoughts, from a > comparison of a few things in KDE and in Mozilla, in the hope that it > helps KDE borrow good ideas from elsewhere. > > * > 1. Issue tracker (Mozilla) vs. Mailing lists (KDE). Hi, Are you sugg

Re: Thoughts from a former KDE, currently Mozilla developer

2010-12-07 Thread Thiago Macieira
On Tuesday, 7 de December de 2010 21:53:57 Benoit Jacob wrote: > 2010/12/7 Thiago Macieira : > > How are you going to properly find the stack without debug symbols? > > > > Imagine one frame that didn't keep the frame pointer properly? > > If the stack is damaged, then indeed I can't do anything;

Re: Thoughts from a former KDE, currently Mozilla developer

2010-12-07 Thread Benoit Jacob
2010/12/7 Thiago Macieira : > On Tuesday, 7 de December de 2010 21:13:53 Benoit Jacob wrote: >> 2010/12/7 Thiago Macieira : >> > On Tuesday, 7 de December de 2010 20:28:57 Benoit Jacob wrote: >> >> So do crash reports now automatically land in a database that's easy >> >> to do queries on? (See the

Re: Thoughts from a former KDE, currently Mozilla developer

2010-12-07 Thread Thiago Macieira
On Tuesday, 7 de December de 2010 21:13:53 Benoit Jacob wrote: > 2010/12/7 Thiago Macieira : > > On Tuesday, 7 de December de 2010 20:28:57 Benoit Jacob wrote: > >> So do crash reports now automatically land in a database that's easy > >> to do queries on? (See the web interface provided by Socorro

Re: Thoughts from a former KDE, currently Mozilla developer

2010-12-07 Thread Benoit Jacob
2010/12/7 Benoit Jacob : > 2010/12/7 Thiago Macieira : >> On Tuesday, 7 de December de 2010 20:28:57 Benoit Jacob wrote: >>> So do crash reports now automatically land in a database that's easy >>> to do queries on? (See the web interface provided by Socorro) >>> >>> If I want to get a list of all

Re: Thoughts from a former KDE, currently Mozilla developer

2010-12-07 Thread Benoit Jacob
2010/12/7 Thiago Macieira : > On Tuesday, 7 de December de 2010 20:28:57 Benoit Jacob wrote: >> So do crash reports now automatically land in a database that's easy >> to do queries on? (See the web interface provided by Socorro) >> >> If I want to get a list of all KDE crashes that happened in lib

Re: Thoughts from a former KDE, currently Mozilla developer

2010-12-07 Thread Thiago Macieira
On Tuesday, 7 de December de 2010 20:28:57 Benoit Jacob wrote: > So do crash reports now automatically land in a database that's easy > to do queries on? (See the web interface provided by Socorro) > > If I want to get a list of all KDE crashes that happened in libGL.so*, > how do I go about that?

Re: Thoughts from a former KDE, currently Mozilla developer

2010-12-07 Thread Martin Gräßlin
On Tuesday 07 December 2010 20:28:57 Benoit Jacob wrote: > 2010/12/7 Andreas Pakulat : > > On 07.12.10 11:22:47, Benoit Jacob wrote: > >> * > >> 4. Crash reports handling (KDE: poor, Mozilla: good) > > > >> * Have a look at Socorro, Mozilla's crash report tool: > > Your info is outdated I thi

Re: Thoughts from a former KDE, currently Mozilla developer

2010-12-07 Thread Benoit Jacob
2010/12/7 Andreas Pakulat : > On 07.12.10 11:22:47, Benoit Jacob wrote: >> * >> 4. Crash reports handling (KDE: poor, Mozilla: good) >>  * Have a look at Socorro, Mozilla's crash report tool: > > Your info is outdated I think, try out a KDE 4.5 app crashing. Dr.Konqi > improved a _lot_ in the l

Re: Thoughts from a former KDE, currently Mozilla developer

2010-12-07 Thread Andreas Pakulat
On 07.12.10 11:22:47, Benoit Jacob wrote: > * > 4. Crash reports handling (KDE: poor, Mozilla: good) > * Have a look at Socorro, Mozilla's crash report tool: Your info is outdated I think, try out a KDE 4.5 app crashing. Dr.Konqi improved a _lot_ in the last year or so and its being actively

Re: Thoughts from a former KDE, currently Mozilla developer

2010-12-07 Thread Benoit Jacob
> 4. Crash reports handling (KDE: poor, Mozilla: good) To be clear, I know about Dr Konqi but afaics it relies on the user to install debug symbols by himself, that's unrealistic. The symbols lookup needs to be done server-side if you want this to work on a large scale with non-technical users. B

Thoughts from a former KDE, currently Mozilla developer

2010-12-07 Thread Benoit Jacob
Hi, I would like to share some hopefully interesting thoughts, from a comparison of a few things in KDE and in Mozilla, in the hope that it helps KDE borrow good ideas from elsewhere. * 1. Issue tracker (Mozilla) vs. Mailing lists (KDE). KDE uses a Mailing list for most its development discu