On 16-05-06 11:29 AM, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Fri, 2016-05-06 at 11:05 -0400, Daniel Dickinson wrote: >> >> Technical elitism tends give a 'you're not good enough / you don't think >> like us, go away' feel to a community. The 'we won't event look at your >> bug report if it doesn't meet the special format we came up with that no >> one else uses' policy is I fear an example of this. I realize the >> reason for it is to try and get better quality bug reports, and less >> ones that aren't useful, but I don't think that is necessarily a good >> way to about it. > > I'm not sure what the right answer is. > > But where resources are limited, good bug reports make the difference > between things actually getting fixed, or not. A bad bug report can
Yes, but I think trying to get only good bug reports by making it hard to do gat a bug report right, is the wrong approach IMO. Basically, the problem I have is not with the notion of 'only good bug reports', but with 'the only good bug report one is one our special format' (that we don't even have link to yet because we haven't figured it out yet). In short it would be *far* better to have a bug tracker that encouraged or require the desired information (or at least made it pain to omit - bugzilla can do this IIRC), than to introduce a custom bug reporting format and mechanism that is going to make it harder to get bug reports at all. > > To *assume* that it's some kind of technical elitism seems a little > wrong, to me. As I said, the issue is not with 'only good bug reports', it's with 'we can ensure only good bug reports by making it a pain to report bugs at all'. Regards, Daniel _______________________________________________ Lede-dev mailing list Lede-dev@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/lede-dev
