On 05/16/2012 07:44 PM, Jim Henderson wrote:
On Wed, 16 May 2012 11:41:05 -0500, Bryen M Yunashko wrote:
Good documentation and training is always helpful. But we can't guarantee that people go to these places. We tell someone "File a bug!" and point them to bugzilla.novell.com. They're faced with a daunting interface right from the get-go.
True. But what we can do is encourage people to go there. There are bound to be people who want to report bugs but are intimidated by the process because they're unfamiliar with it.
So the goal of such material would be to lower that barrier to use.
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