[geeks] [Fwd: Re: top 10 gruesome gnome2 bug list]

[Gregory Leblanc]

OK gurus, what's going to make this proposal usable for a few dozen
simultaneous connections?  My thoughts would be that ssh with X
forwarding and some compression would give some shot at reasonable
performance, but is there anything that's going to make that networking
aspect a little less of a bugger?  I don't know what they'll have for a
box at the other end, but I'm sure suggestions on what specs would make
sense there are welcome too.  Clearly the U10s that everybody in that
group has for desktops wouldn't be suitable.  
	Greg

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From: Karl Gaffney <Karl.Gaffney at Sun.COM>
Reply-To: Karl Gaffney <Karl.Gaffney at Sun.COM>
Subject: Re: top 10 gruesome gnome2 bug list
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> > Some relevant lists:
> > *The other 138 high-priority or greater non-solaris-specific bugs:
> > http://makeashorterlink.com/?I294239B
> >
> > Note: obviously I think solaris bugs are extremely important... I just
> > don't put them in here because there are a lot of them and they are hard
> > for linux-based hackers (which is the vast majority) to debug/trace.
> >
> 
> This brings up an interesting question...  My long time experience
> is that bugs on other platforms often manifest themselves on the original
> development platform, just in different and more obscure (and often much 
harder
> to debug) form.
> 
> Is there a Solaris box where developers can find nightly built bits
> available to enable Linux hackers to log in and track those bugs down?
> If not, could Sun set one up on the public net?
> 
> My intuition is that this would be a good way to help get the quality
> and stability of the overall Gnome platform up, if some way for the
> developers exist to change bugs on other platforms (particularly if
> standard gnu tools like GDB are installed and available).  It is often
> faster to get nasty bugs this way (on a platform where they happen
> to become obviou), than chase them the conventional way.
>                              - Jim

Sun would be very interested in doing this and would welcome
suggestions as how best to implement as quickly as possible.

-Karl.

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