[alsa-devel] I created a wiki page about bug reporting, review requested

[Tanu Kaskinen]

On Fri, 2016-03-04 at 18:03 +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> On Fri, 04 Mar 2016 09:14:52 +0100,
> Tanu Kaskinen wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > When talking with PulseAudio users, I sometimes need to tell people to
> > file ALSA bugs, and it would be nice to have a web page that explains
> > how to do that. (Also, I found that the alsa packages in OpenEmbedded
> > point to a non-functional bug tracker, and I wanted to fix the
> > packages, but I couldn't find a substitute link.) Therefore I created a
> > wiki page: http://alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Bug_Tracking
> > 
> > The Bug_Tracking wiki page points to another new page, explaining alsa-
> > info.sh: http://alsa-project.org/main/index.php/AlsaInfo
> > 
> > Are the ALSA maintainers happy with the contents? I'm not really an
> > expert on how you prefer bugs to be reported.
> 
> Yeah, I'm happy with it.  Thank you!
> 
> Though, a few more hints would be better to be put:
> - alsa-devel ML needs the manual approval if posted from
>   non-subscribers.  Subscribe to ML before posting, or be patient.
> 
> - A too long text is seen as a spam.  The alsa-info.sh output might be
>   better compressed and attached to the mail.  (A long text can go out
>   after the manual approval, though.)
> 
> - HTML mails are silently dropped as spam on alsa-devel ML.

Thanks, I added these points to the wiki page now.

-- 
Tanu