Le jeudi 08 janvier 2009, à 11:12 +0000, Rob OpenSuSE a écrit :
2009/1/7 Vincent Untz
: Let's take a concrete example:
a) you file a bug (bug A). b) someone (doesn't matter who) closes your bug as duplicate of another bug (bug B)
You then have two possibilities:
That's not what we're supposed to do. Filing the bug report involves searching for similar reports, hence my experience of "joining" other bug reports, if the problem looks similar. Often this involves providing information, for a bug report filed on a previous release, that has stalled.
You're perfectly right. So another way to measure if the bug affects many people is to look at the length of the cc list. [...]
I'm sorry but when I've been testing stuff, frequently I have to be not only selective of the bugs I report, as there is no shortage of obvious flaws to find in a release like 11.1-rc1, but then there's often test reports to gather in a timely turn around.
The reality is, messing around in the Wiki is yet another task, one
Agree.
that is public and that decision "most annoying bugs" is one that I'd not be well placed to make a considered judgement.
That's where I disagree (see my previous mail about not being afraid to do a mistake).
The developer's marking bugs as duplicates, who do not want another 10 bug reports, are however perfectly placed.
I'm not saying the developer should not do it. What I'm saying is that everybody, including you, can do it -- especially if the developer didn't think about doing it (which, let's be honest, will happen).
I have the feeling that you think the barrier to contribute is high. It doesn't have to be. An average bug reporter can make a good job too for this. You just don't have to be afraid of making mistakes.
I am actually saying, that contributing by testing, filing bugs, and providing info on "known" problems is fairly time consuming as is, without adding extra expectations of also creating Wiki pages which can only be of a speculative nature.
Nobody is expecting you to do it: "you can do it" doesn't mean "we expect you to do it". The thing is: if it's broken, anybody can step up to start fixing it. You're saying "it's up to the developers/bug triage team", while I'm saying "it's up to all of us, and it's realistically more likely to be fixed by people who think the current list is not good enough". Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help@opensuse.org