Le mercredi 07 janvier 2009, à 16:50 +0000, Rob OpenSuSE a écrit :
2009/1/7 Vincent Untz
: Le mercredi 07 janvier 2009, à 10:07 +0000, Rob OpenSuSE a écrit :
2009/1/7 Rajko M.
: Creating entry on the wiki is not a holly script, so anyone missing it can create wiki page, add reference it in the "Most Annoying Bugs".
How would I know it was a commonly reported bug, without being in the Bug Triage team?
Because you're experiencing the bug and saw there were many duplicates in bugzilla, for example.
Who's deciding they're duplicates? It's very often unclear, when you join a bug report, that it is actually the same bug. I've often for instance seen claims of "crashes", but unsupported by kernel dump or oops, when what I see is very poor performance and many errors written to log files.
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: c1) you're not curious. The trip ends here :-) c2) you're curious and look at bug B and see that there are 10 bugs marked as duplicates of this bug. If you do c2, you found a bug with many duplicates.
So to be blunt, it is TOTALLY unrealistic to expect me to write both a bug report, and do Wiki page! I just won't get round to doing it.
So, hrm, are you saying that this should be done by Novell people only?
No I never said that. If openSUSE ppl are doing bug triage, and have communication with the developers of the package involved they're in an excellent position to make that decisions.
Going back to the example above: Now, the person who closed your bug as duplicate could have added the bug in the list of most annoying bugs, but maybe this person just forgot or was doing something else at the same time. So you can do it. Sure, you might be afraid to do it because you're not 100% sure it's right, but it's a wiki and the good thing is that someone disagreeing with you will be able to fix the stuff.
I don't think the average bug reporter will make a good job of it. Most likely if it was done, frequently the reports would be unclear, and would get orphaned, just like so many bugzilla reports I've seen which get stuck for months (years?) on "NEEDINFO".
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. 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