On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 8:02 PM, Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> wrote:
> Ben Hutchings <b...@decadent.org.uk> writes: > > On Sat, 2013-05-25 at 10:41 +0200, Ondřej Surý wrote: > > >> I have no big problem pointing fingers on d-d. > >> > >> Example 1: Dan Jacobson <jida...@jidanni.org> > > > Often writes poor bug reports, but is not abusive. > > And his bug reports have gotten better and better over the years. I am horrified what his bugreports were before the years, if those I have just shown are "better" :). > He > still files all upstream bugs with Debian, but I can't throw stones there; > I tend to do the same thing myself, since Debian has such a nice and > consistent bug reporting interface and upstream's usually... isn't. :) > > He files lots and lots of minor/wishlist bugs, but that isn't abuse. He's > one of the few people who regularly files bugs when he finds unclear or > confusing documentation, and while that results in a lot of small bugs > (and a lot of bugs that are really upstream bugs), I think that's also a > valuable *type* of bug that frequently doesn't get enough attention. > I think I have never said the word "abuse", just "tiresome". The "I see a warning from ucf, let's fill a bug on php5-common" finally overflew my cup of patience (what is the correct english idiom for this?). I have an idea – maybe we could have a pseudo-package called "please-improve" (or whatever name we pick), where people can reassign bugreports which they feel they are unable to handle. This pseudo-bug would be monitored by some virtuous people[*] better in handling poor bugreports and they would work with submitter to improve the bug report, and then reassign it back. This might be similar to what I have seen in Launchpad – there's a bugsquad team that can handle all bugreports in just any package[1][2]. * - if we can find such people somewhere, but I am quite sure there are some :). 1. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HelpingWithBugs 2. https://launchpad.net/~bugsquad O. -- Ondřej Surý <ond...@sury.org>
