https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=366458
User sh@novell.com added comment
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=366458#c4
--- Comment #4 from Stefan Hundhammer 2008-03-04 03:35:56 MST ---
Sorry, pasted the wrong FAQ entry. The one I meant was:
"Q: People were very unhappy because I only wrote "see subject" in the Bugzilla
bug description - but my subject really explains it all! Isn't it pure
nitpicking to insist on bug reporters repeating that in the description field?
A: No, not at all.
Subjects get changed all the time. The problem you reported might only be the
tip of an ice berg - the real problem might be at a completely different place,
and then those knowing that place of course will change the subject
accordingly. This in turn means that your original subject will get lost.
So it should be obvious enough that the subject is no place to store relevant
information, and the problem that is being reported certainly is the single
most important information in a bug report.
It is also simply bad style to dump all kinds of information in the subject and
then only reference to the subject. This is just pure laziness. It costs you
time once to do it properly, but everybody working with that bug has to search
all over the place for the relevant information again and again.
In addition to that, a subject should be concise - but a bug description should
be explanatory. Both requirements are contradictory."
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