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[Bug 279866] No QA for patch descriptions
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- Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2007 11:24:54 -0600 (MDT)
- Message-id: <20070604172454.9B4931094@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=279866
------- Comment #8 from suse-beta@xxxxxxxxx 2007-06-04 11:24 MST -------
(In reply to comment #7)
> The patch description says:
> <description lang="en">This update of ImageMagick fixes a bug in the patch
> for the last security update for CVE-2007-1797.
> </description>
>
> What do you mean by "buggy"?
As I wrote: the summary is nearly useless.
> The text you cited is just the summary.
And it is all that opensuse-updater shows.
> I see no bug, typo, whatever here. If you need more information use another
> frontend (i.e. the ZenUpdater).
I'm afraid you miss the point.
The _summary_ should contain the most important information - that's why it is
called summary ;-) . And IMHO it is important _what_ (which package) was fixed.
The description is a bit hidden:
- YaST shows it for the selected patch, so you have to click each patch to see
it for all available patches.
- opensuse-updater doesn't show the summary anywhere
- in zen-updater, you need to click on "details" IIRC (besides the fact that
is is gone in 10.3 and many people don't use it on 10.1/10.2)
Of course the long description contains all the details, but the summary is
what people see first.
Real-world question:
Imagine a newspaper that states "something happened" in big letters on the
title page, with another headline "it happened!", hiding the event somewhere in
the text, and of course without photos.
Would you buy this newspaper and/or read these articles?
> P.S.: We have a proofread action item in our update process.
Then please add the following to your checklist:
- "the summary should contain the package title"
- "the summary should give a short overview about what was changed"
- "german and english text should have the same meaning"
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------- Comment #8 from suse-beta@xxxxxxxxx 2007-06-04 11:24 MST -------
(In reply to comment #7)
> The patch description says:
> <description lang="en">This update of ImageMagick fixes a bug in the patch
> for the last security update for CVE-2007-1797.
> </description>
>
> What do you mean by "buggy"?
As I wrote: the summary is nearly useless.
> The text you cited is just the summary.
And it is all that opensuse-updater shows.
> I see no bug, typo, whatever here. If you need more information use another
> frontend (i.e. the ZenUpdater).
I'm afraid you miss the point.
The _summary_ should contain the most important information - that's why it is
called summary ;-) . And IMHO it is important _what_ (which package) was fixed.
The description is a bit hidden:
- YaST shows it for the selected patch, so you have to click each patch to see
it for all available patches.
- opensuse-updater doesn't show the summary anywhere
- in zen-updater, you need to click on "details" IIRC (besides the fact that
is is gone in 10.3 and many people don't use it on 10.1/10.2)
Of course the long description contains all the details, but the summary is
what people see first.
Real-world question:
Imagine a newspaper that states "something happened" in big letters on the
title page, with another headline "it happened!", hiding the event somewhere in
the text, and of course without photos.
Would you buy this newspaper and/or read these articles?
> P.S.: We have a proofread action item in our update process.
Then please add the following to your checklist:
- "the summary should contain the package title"
- "the summary should give a short overview about what was changed"
- "german and english text should have the same meaning"
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