Hi,
>>"Rob" == Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Rob> Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> What I am requesting is that the submitter of a bug take some time, in
>> exchange for the time they expect from the maintainer, and verify that the
>> bug has not been reported already. If it has, it is appropriate to send
>> the maintainer a confirmation that you also experienced the bug and any
>> additional information you can contribute to the solution. This
>> confirmation should be CC'd to the original bug report, for continuity
>> purposes. But creating an additional report is both confusing and
>> administrativly ugly.
Rob> This should be mandated (I thought it was). Not that I've always been
Rob> as careful as I should have been, but I've tried to be pretty good.
Rob> It's extremely helpful (especially for high-traffic-area/critical
Rob> packages like X and libc) that you not end up with floods of redundant
Rob> bugs.
Umm, no. It would be nice if they did it, but a novce user is
perfectly free to just file a bug report. I know I often do. I find
an error, usually that by itself is a frustrating experience, also,
it is likely to be in the middle of a largish upgrade (I upgrade ever
so often). I am not into going over and looking up stuff in the
archive for a dozen pacxkages; I just send a report.
Make bug reporting any more onerous than it is, and peole
merely stop filing reports.
For the most part the maintainer knows the bugs on a package
better than anyone else, and the maintainers are fairly well versed
in the Bug system; merging bugs is not all that hard.
I realize when you inherit a package with a gazillion bugs
that is not as easy; but it gets better as you get more familiar with
the bugs on your packages.
Rob> Not only that, but the user might discover a workaround in the bug log
Rob> that helps them out. This might be the best way to "sell" the idea :>
Yes. It is a good idea. It just should not be mandatory.
manoj
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