[gmx-developers] single bugfix listing

[Erik Lindahl]

Hi David,

Originally that was one of our idea for the gmx-revision list, but  
I'll be the first to admit it's not working that way now :-)

We want to keep things as automated as possible, though. One such  
thing I've thought of is to introduce automated nightly builds of  
distribution tarballs from the release branch. Perhaps the best  
option would be mix this with a (likewise automated) online list of  
commits in the release branch?  It won't be perfect, and perhaps a  
bit brief, but it will at least be available.

I guess we should also start referring to bugzilla entry numbers when  
we commit fixes...

Berk, David, and I will be meeting in Uppsala this week, so we'll try  
to come up with something!

Cheers,

Erik

On Mar 17, 2006, at 8:02 PM, David Mobley wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I've had a number of people e-mail me over the last few days who  
> turned up e-mails from the GROMACS list where I had noticed bugs  
> (for example, bugs in mdrun -rerun and in the dihedral restraints  
> code). The e-mails typically ask what exactly the bug was, if it  
> was resolved, and if I can send a patch.
>
> Would it be possible to have a single web page on the GROMACS site  
> which lists all of the bugs that have been identified and fixed  
> since the release of the current version? Then there would be one  
> single page for people to monitor to see whether they are using a  
> "buggy" section of code. Probably, it would be most helpful if this  
> list either also had links to patches (for example, the dihedral  
> restraints fix just requires a new dihres.c) or (in the case of  
> more detailed bugs) just points people to CVS.
>
> I am a bit nervous that there are a lot of people who download, for  
> example, GROMACS 3.3, and just start using it without ever either  
> looking at bugzilla or the users  list to find out whether there  
> are bugs in the options they're using. And this information is  
> nontrivial to get from either place: As far as I know, it requires  
> listing ALL (not just open) bugs on bugzilla and looking to see if  
> any of them are problematic. It also would require searching the  
> users list for each option that people are using, as I think there  
> are some bugs that never made it into bugzilla.
>
> Anyway, that's all to say I think it woudl be really useful if part  
> of the bugfix process could be posting bugfixes somewhere on the  
> web page on a single page that people can monitor. Probably also it  
> would be a good idea to e-mail the users list when there are  
> bugfixes that are especially significant.
>
> Just some ideas...
>
> Thanks!
> David Mobley
> UCSF
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