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Re: Futile bug reports?
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: Futile bug reports? |
Date: |
Mon, 13 Aug 2001 17:09:59 +0300 |
Gunnar Evermann wrote:
>
> I can only agree with Gerd and Eli here. Setting up a Bug Tracking
> System is (relatively) easy and can be done fairly quickly but
> actually maintaining it is a lot of exceedingly boring work. The
> quality of the average bug report is rather low.
Indeed.
I should add that what I wrote is not purely theoretical, either: I'm one of
the few people who read and take care of the bug reports submitted to the
DJGPP bug-tracking system (http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/bugs/). About 80%
of them are cockpit errors or are not related to DJGPP per se.
Fortunately, the number of DJGPP users who even consider submitting a bug
report is relatively small. Otherwise I don't know where would I get all
the time required to handle that flood.
> It might be somewhat cynical, but making the reporting of bugs more
> difficult makes the work of the maintainers easier, since the people
> who are competent enough to use a newsgroup or find a mailing list
> address in a README file tend to provide decent reports... :-(
I don't think the current situation makes it harder to submit a report.
What it makes harder is tracking the bug's progress. Basically, with the
current setup, a person who reports a bug might well not hear from us again
(although in many cases they do).
- Futile bug reports?, deja8501, 2001/08/08
- Re: Futile bug reports?, Charles Sebold, 2001/08/08
- Re: Futile bug reports?, Richard Stallman, 2001/08/08
- Re: Futile bug reports?, deja8501, 2001/08/09
- Re: Futile bug reports?, Eli Zaretskii, 2001/08/09
- Re: Futile bug reports?, deja8501, 2001/08/09
- Re: Futile bug reports?, Eli Zaretskii, 2001/08/09
- Re: Futile bug reports?, Gerd Moellmann, 2001/08/09
- Re: Futile bug reports?, Gunnar Evermann, 2001/08/13
- Re: Futile bug reports?,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: Futile bug reports?, Kai Großjohann, 2001/08/13
- Re: Futile bug reports?, Peter S Galbraith, 2001/08/13
- Re: Futile bug reports?, Eli Zaretskii, 2001/08/14
- Re: Futile bug reports?, Peter S Galbraith, 2001/08/14
- Re: Futile bug reports?, Eli Zaretskii, 2001/08/14
- Re: Futile bug reports?, Peter S Galbraith, 2001/08/14
- Re: Futile bug reports?, Richard Stallman, 2001/08/15
- Re: Futile bug reports?, Peter S Galbraith, 2001/08/15
- Re: Futile bug reports?, Marcelo Dias de Toledo, 2001/08/15
- Re: Futile bug reports?, Paul D. Smith, 2001/08/15