I agree with yarko and for one more reason: The processing of accessing lanchpad to close a bug usually takes longer than fixing the bug (assuming it is a real bug).
Massimo On Apr 19, 1:12 am, Yarko Tymciurak <yark...@gmail.com> wrote: > You are right, Jason... > But still, I think putting a bug in the group list first serves a purpose: > it validates that others can reproduce.... > > When that happens (or when you get no response) then this serves as a useful > pre-requisite before putting in a bug tracker. > > I have spend many a weekend removing bugs from issue trackers which did not > have enough information to reproduce (that is - someone was convinced they > found a bug, and maybe they did - but it was useless because others could > not easily produce the problem). > > It makes sense to validate that you have a problem with the community before > reporting it as a tracked problem, don't you agree? > > Regards, > - Yarko > > On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 11:05 PM, Jason Brower <encomp...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > There are many times I report a bug or feature, in other projects, and > > the main developers are working too hard on other parts of the project. > > (Openoffice is just not working on a feature I requested 3 years ago.) > > The biggest reason I see a tracker as useful is because I want to > > contribute. I can see a list of bugs, and can contribute by helping > > triage and report on them. I can report a bug and see when it really is > > fixed, or when it needs to be tested. It's so much more organized, and > > most OSS contributers don't sign up for the emailing list of all > > software they have bugs in and use, they report the bugs, as they have > > to pick and choose the projects they can fully contribute to. Many > > people have to focus on using the product so much they must have a quick > > way to contribute the bug report or they simple can't do it at all. > > To me, this is part of the maturing OSS project. > > --- > > Jason Brower > > > On Sat, 2009-04-18 at 17:42 -0500, Yarko Tymciurak wrote: > > > :-) I can "reproduce" this! > > > > "[revert] to previour page" !!! :-) > > > > Can you supply a patch? (just kidding - if Massimo doesn't fix this > > > this weekend, would you post to > > > > AND, ALL: PLEASE NOTE CORRECTION TO BUGS LINK: > > > >https://bugs.launchpad.net/web2py > > > > (The one Fran reported is not used - SVN is just a convenience mirror > > > of the launchpad repository; for now, Launchpad is the official > > > repository of web2py) > > > > Regards, > > > - Yarko > > > > On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 5:24 PM, mikech <mp.ch...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I would like to report that on the edit page of the > > > administrative > > > interface the word > > > previous is misspelled after the revert button. > > > > Mike > > > > On Apr 18, 1:10 pm, Fran <francisb...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > > On Apr 18, 4:52 pm, Jason Brower <encomp...@gmail.com> > > > wrote: > > > > > > Can we use launchpad to keep try of bugs and feature > > > requests? I love > > > > > to post ideas that come to my mind, but putting to a list > > > with a project > > > > > this large makes the features melt into the intertube. > > > > > Issue Tracker is > > > here:http://code.google.com/p/web2py/issues/list > > > > > Although, as Yarko says, this group is different from normal > > > in that > > > > issues are better posted to the listed first... > > > > > F --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py Web Framework" group. To post to this group, send email to web2py@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
