Tracking the open USB2 issues?

Garrett Cooper yanefbsd at gmail.com
Thu Dec 25 07:28:38 UTC 2008


On Dec 24, 2008, at 19:02, linimon at lonesome.com (Mark Linimon) wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 04:37:10PM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
>> Let's do a gnats catagory.
>>
>> Anything special I have to do to add a "newusb" catagory?
>
> Something that we could do at much lower cost is to edit the Synopses.
>
> Right some of the USB PRs have the string '[usb]' in the Synopsis.
> (Others have such things as '[umass]', '[uplcom]', etc.)
>
> Doing s/usb/usb2/ is something that I could do in an hour or so.
> (Adding '[usb2]' to the rest would probably be fairly mechanical.)
>
> Fiddling with GNATS would take longer (and then everyone has to get
> some updated files).  But, if that would be clearer for people, we
> can do that.
>
> To view PRs by tag:
>
> ~gnats/tools/showwithtag usb
> http://people.freebsd.org/~linimon/studies/prs/prs_for_tag_usb.html
>  (that's generated once per day)
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr-summary.cgi?text=%27%5Busb%5D%27
>
> To view all the category 'usb' PRs:
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr-summary.cgi?category=usb
>
> I'm willing to be ringleader for the work, whichever way we decide
> we want to go.
>
> My own view is that a number of people will not properly select the
> usb vs. usb2 category, and we'll have to do manual fixups anyways.
>
> mcl

Is the gnats page customizable? If so i'd just mention that the new  
USB PR's should be filed under usb2.

Just a thought..

-Garrett


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