Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 1785]New:packet-dcerpc-atsvc.c display
From: "Maynard, Chris" <Christopher.Maynard@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 15:14:28 -0400
Hmm, I'm not sure he meant that, especially since Richard's follow-up
(http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev/200708/msg00432.html)
indicated that he wanted me to send patches for each one.

I am basically going down the alphabet here, tediously looking for
display filter fields that don't look right, then fixing them as I go.
I'm only on 'C' at the moment, so this is going to take awhile before
I'm done.

Anyway, I guess I'm still confused as to what to do.  Are you now saying
to open a single bug and list all the dissectors that are affected, then
go back and provide one big patch for all of them?  I can tell you now
that at the pace I'm going, I'll probably be interrupted or possibly
even give up before I reach the end, so it's very possible that the
single bug covering all dissectors will never be closed, at least not by
patches provided by me.

Perhaps a compromise?  Like submitting a bug for each letter of the
alphabet and list all dissectors affected beginning with that letter.
This way, at most 26 bugs will be opened (apart from the ones I already
opened)?  Then patches can be attached one at a time as they're fixed
and only when the last one is attached can the bug be reviewed for
checkin?  This will also mean that I can work on them in more manageable
groups, and it will also let others know where I've left off in case
someone else wants to assist with fixing these.

- Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: wireshark-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:wireshark-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Luis EG
Ontanon
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2007 2:57 PM
To: Developer support list for Wireshark
Subject: Re: [Wireshark-dev] [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug
1785]New:packet-dcerpc-atsvc.c display filter field problems

I guess Guy thought you were just to report them, not to provide
patches.
I would go for a single patch.

On 8/23/07, Maynard, Chris <Christopher.Maynard@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> That directly contradicts what Guy Harris asked me to do earlier,
namely
> "I'd open bugs for each dissector (so we don't have to fix them all at
> once to close the bug).".  His thread in which he wrote that is here:
> http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev/200708/msg00432.html
>
> Can you guys please let me know how I should continue?
>
> Thanks,
> Chris
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wireshark-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:wireshark-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Joerg Mayer
> Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2007 2:37 PM
> To: wireshark-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Wireshark-dev] [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 1785]
> New:packet-dcerpc-atsvc.c display filter field problems
>
> > Please try not to open a bug for each and every problem of this
type:
> > It makes it much more time intensive to review many many small
patches
> > than a few bigger patches. It's also more work with bugzilla.
> >
> > Thanks for your work though!!!
> >
> >  ciao
> >       Joerg
>
>
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