Find the right... package?

[David Tombs]

On 05/20/2010 04:21 PM, C de-Avillez wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-05-20 at 00:15 +0200, Philip Muskovac wrote:
>> As most of us know we have a wiki page about that.
>>
>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/FindRightPackage
>>
>> What I'm wondering about is:
>> Is anyone actually taking care of that page regularily? The fact that I
>> recently added notify-osd and plymouth to the page seems to say no.
>> Considering that we reference that page at a lot of places (and not only
>> on team internal pages) we should get more people to add information to it.
>> How about having a wiki day/week about a week before Feature/Beta Freeze
>> to update it for the new release?
> 
> This sounds like a good idea. Care to jump-start the process? ;-)
> 
>>
>> Here a few things that I find are missing and I'm not sure what the best
>> way to add them is / I don't know enough about them to add them:
>>
>> - general system bootup / grub2 upstart? We only have references for
>> splash, kernel, xorg and live disk. I'm not sure how much detail would
>> be right here.
>> - does it make sense to add something encryption related?
>> - Mention the indicators?
>> - drivers? (Or should jockey be a bit more verbose?)
>>
>> Also I only found the storage symptom being mentioned and I'm sure
>> others can add more to the list.
> 
> Theoretically, we should be continuously correcting/adding/adjusting
> this page, and all others related to it. 
> 
> @All: please feel free to collaborate. If in doubt, there is always this
> mailing list, or the #ubuntu-bugs IRC channel.
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> 
> 

I try to update it when I encounter a wrong-package bug that could have
been prevented with information on the page. I do think updating it
based on each new release is a good idea, though, and I wrote a reminder
to myself to do that for 10.10.

David