On 21.07.2007 15:02 schrieb Thijs Kinkhorst: > On Saturday 21 July 2007 14:44, Bastian Venthur wrote: >> Rng was by the way not intended to be a 1:1 replacement for reportbug or >> just a reportbug-with-GUI. > > This is not really supported by the naming of your program (an edit distance > of 3 with reportbug) nor by the description. Those two will suggest to the > casual user that this is a tool that you could use just as well as the > regular 'reportbug' tool.
Of course rng provides from the users point of view a very similar functionality as reportbug and is intended as a replacement. But from my developers point of view I did not aim to provide an 1:1 replacement (meaning rng and reportbug should be 1:1 bug-compatible) That's a difference. > Different maintainers have already registered that this is not the case for > them and reportbug-ng provides less quality bug reports to them. That is the > good right of reportbug-ng, but if this is by design then reportbug-ng should > be clear to users that it's not actually a replacement for reportbug. Rng is just a tool which helps users to browse, filter and submit bug reports. Reportbug is another one. For me the reference how to write bug reports is described here: http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting.en.html where /usr/share/bugs is not even mentioned. >> But nevertheless, I agree that this bug report is worth a read. It >> nicely demonstrates how some developers use to argue with others. > > Like those developers that prefer spending their time on writing statements > to > the technical committee rather than adding the feature? :-) I haven't written any statement to the technical committee about this issue. I just offered a discussion together with them in order to find a solution for our disagreement about the importance of the requested feature in a *calm* way. I don't plan to implement a feature I'm not convinced of just because some of the requesters prefer a very aggressive kind of argumentation, quite the contrary is the case! But nevertheless I still offered to discuss this on a neutral ground. Cheers, Bastian -- Bastian Venthur http://venthur.de Debian Developer venthur at debian org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
