Hi Enrico, On 05/07/16 16:58 +0300, Enrico Zini said ... > > it would be interesting if reportbug included the novice/.../expert mode > setting in the report: that might allow to know something more about the > level of the user and answer back in more appropriate ways.
The mode in reportbug does not necessarily indicate the users' real capability for understanding an issue reported. > For example, I'd add a small explanation on how to run strace to someone > reporting with 'novice' level, while I'd just ask to include the strace > log to someone running as 'expert'. e.g. I might be an expert user of reportbug (not requiring a lot of prompting etc. for using _reportbug_), but if I am trying out some small piece of software package written in, say OCaml, and the software doesn't start-up properly, I wouldn't know what "sending an OCaml trace" means (if the maintainer of the software asks me to send one). Also, package maintainers can use /usr/software/bug/<package>/script to collect information like this (like in the case of this bug report, reading /etc/reportbug.conf and ~/.reportbugrc). Does this sound reasonable? We can mark this wishlist bug as wontfix if it does :) Cheers, Giridhar -- Y Giridhar Appaji Nag | http://www.appaji.net/
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