Re: [Qemu-devel] [qemu-web PATCH] add Thomas's bug reporting dos and don'ts

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 01:57:35PM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote:
> On 26.07.2017 13:44, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> > We don't want the page to become too long, but these are good suggestions.
> > 
> > Also tone down the sentence about using the latest release or latest git
> > tree, though we do prefer those.
> 
> Well, sometimes people still report bugs against QEMU 2.1 or so ... so
> I'd say everything that is older than the current version - 2 has a very
> high chance to be ignored completely. So maybe we should ask people to
> use at least one of the versions that is mentioned on the front-page of
> www.qemu.org ?

The biggest reason people would be using old versions of QEMU is if they
are running a distro's build. Such people should really file bugs in
their vendor's bug tracker, rather than against upstream directly.

IOW, it would be worth having a bit of text on the bug reporting page
to suggest people should preferrentially use their vendor's bug tracker,
if they are using a 3rd party build of QEMU.


Regards,
Daniel
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