From: Alan Horkan (horkana@tcd.ie)
Date: Fri Apr 26 2002 - 08:20:37 EDT
On Fri, 26 Apr 2002, F J Franklin wrote:
> Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 10:29:51 +0100 (BST)
> From: F J Franklin <F.J.Franklin@sheffield.ac.uk>
> To: abiword-dev@abisource.com
> Subject: Proposal for New Bug-Submission Policy
>
> I hereby propose that all valid bug reports be accompanied by:
>
> (1) a complete description of the bug and how to reproduce it, and a
> formal written apology, with recognized GPG signature, for finding it;
> (2) a detailed description of the operating system and architecture,
> including IP address and root/Administrator password; and
> (3) a patch which fixes the bug and verification of the patch for all
> operating systems and architectures supported by AbiWord.
>
> Any bug report failing to meet these requirements should be considered
> invalid.
>
> Insincerely,
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
you had me worried for a second there
"If you had a joke this good would you wait 'till April first"
-- Holly the computer, from Red Dwarf.
but frankly (deliberate pun) it would be nice to rank bug with some sort
of simple authority (1,2,3) bugs filed by developers such as Frank, Dom,
Hub, Michael etc would be top authoritive 1,
i would get an authority of about 2, and unknown users would get an
authority of 3.
maybe if someone could compose a nice query to do something along these
lines, it would help people who occasionaly go through Bugizilla to use
their time most effectively.
I can understand why Frank proposed his original idea, but quantity and
quality of bug reports are to a certain extent mutually exclusive.
If we had Talkback like Netscape, or BugBuddy worked better and worked
cross platform maybe would could get a bulk of crash data that would help
highlight some of the problems. A hugh quantity of crash reports would
only be usefull if there was an automated system for processing them.
We know have a simple Email exporter, i have suggested previously that we
might be able to leverage something like this to ecourage bug reports.
(i wish Mozilla would fix this, please add votes if you have a Mozilla
Bugzilla votes http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26201 )
if there were nightly Debug builds, and i learnt how to use a debugger it
would probably help too.
Later
Alan
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