Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla etiquette suggestions

2006-02-17 Thread Shyam Mani
Ned Ludd wrote: > Thank you for taking the time to put preXX doc this mail together. > I find it personally inspiring and a reminder to watch how I/we handle > bugs which is often easy to overlook. Thanks for saying what I wanted to say Ned, I totally agree with you. Regards, -- Shyam Mani |

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla etiquette suggestions

2006-02-17 Thread Shyam Mani
Daniel Drake wrote: > Maybe we should consider alternatives. I quite like the NOTABUG > resolution they have on the GNOME bugzilla. I think this is a good idea. Shouldn't be too difficult to put this in / replace INVALID with NOTABUG I guess. Regards, -- Shyam Mani | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> docs-t

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla etiquette suggestions

2006-02-13 Thread Donnie Berkholz
Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Sun, 12 Feb 2006 23:32:39 + Daniel Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | It may feel a little harsh to give someone a canned response just by > | pasting a URL in the comment field, but curious readers will find his > | faq.txt which explains nicely that we aren't e

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla etiquette suggestions

2006-02-13 Thread Daniel Drake
Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: In amaroK's case, anyway, there's no problem to know if it has relesed: upstream releases always in time, providing packagers with candidates to release, allowing to prepare stuff before actual release.. the release is also broadcasted in their homepage, on [EMA

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla etiquette suggestions

2006-02-13 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
On Monday 13 February 2006 00:24, Daniel Drake wrote: > Maybe not if you have already done the work. I was thinking more of the > scenario, upstream does a release. You are on the mailing list so you > know about the new version. You decide you'll bump it in portage tomorrow. > > Overnight, someone

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla etiquette suggestions

2006-02-13 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 12 Feb 2006 23:32:39 + Daniel Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | It may feel a little harsh to give someone a canned response just by | pasting a URL in the comment field, but curious readers will find his | faq.txt which explains nicely that we aren't evil/lazy, we just have | a lot

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla etiquette suggestions

2006-02-13 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Mon, 13 Feb 2006 00:57:33 + (UTC) Ferris McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Well, the user did the work, too, and doesn't know that you did it | (if I understand your case correctly). So the user deserves as much | credit as you do. What? No, that's silly. The one who does the work get

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla etiquette suggestions

2006-02-12 Thread Ned Ludd
Thank you for taking the time to put preXX doc this mail together. I find it personally inspiring and a reminder to watch how I/we handle bugs which is often easy to overlook. On Sun, 2006-02-12 at 21:11 +, Daniel Drake wrote: > I wrote most of this a while ago but didn't get round to fin

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla etiquette suggestions

2006-02-12 Thread Ferris McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 12 Feb 2006, Daniel Drake wrote: Henrik Brix Andersen wrote: > 3. Always record contributions by name > > If you commit something in response to a bug report that has been filed, > always thank the user by full name (and bug number) in

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla etiquette suggestions

2006-02-12 Thread Daniel Drake
Marien Zwart wrote: I think this is too much effort, especially for small corrections. I tend to fix them myself, commit with a message like "...based on an ebuild from ... (bug #)" and comment on the bug like "Committed with minor changes". It would probably be a good thing if I went into a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla etiquette suggestions

2006-02-12 Thread Daniel Drake
Henrik Brix Andersen wrote: 3. Always record contributions by name If you commit something in response to a bug report that has been filed, always thank the user by full name (and bug number) in the ChangeLog and commit message. Do the above even if you already knew about the bug (i.e. you w

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla etiquette suggestions

2006-02-12 Thread Marien Zwart
On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 09:11:33PM +, Daniel Drake wrote: > I wrote most of this a while ago but didn't get round to finishing it. > This seems appropriate at this time, so here it is :) > > Here are some small *suggestions* for how I think we can motivate users > on Bugzilla to contribute m

Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugzilla etiquette suggestions

2006-02-12 Thread Henrik Brix Andersen
Hi, On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 09:11:33PM +, Daniel Drake wrote: > 2. Be careful with INVALID resolutions > > The term invalid _is_ harsh in bugzilla context, so make sure you write > a quick thankful-sounding comment to go with it. > > Maybe we should consider alternatives. I quite like the N

[gentoo-dev] Bugzilla etiquette suggestions

2006-02-12 Thread Daniel Drake
I wrote most of this a while ago but didn't get round to finishing it. This seems appropriate at this time, so here it is :) Here are some small *suggestions* for how I think we can motivate users on Bugzilla to contribute more, and to contribute more often. I'm not suggesting this be enforced