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Chris Gianelloni wrote: |
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> On Thu, 2006-08-24 at 07:13 -0500, Andrew Gaffney wrote: |
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>> Bardur Arantsson wrote: |
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>>> Paste |
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>>> http://www.mail-archive.com/gentoo-catalyst%40lists.gentoo.org/msg00395.html |
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>>> into your TODO file. |
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>> It probably took you more time to find that URL than it would have to file a |
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>> bug. Why do users have such an aversion to filing bugs? |
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> Probably for the same reason developers don't keep stupid TODO lists and |
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> use a bug tracker to track issues like this. Personal preference. |
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> As you are well aware, if it isn't in a bug, I won't remember it. |
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I know how you feel. I'm afflicted with the same problem. |
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> I don't keep a TODO of any kind, as bugzilla does this for me. Why should |
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> I have to duplicate functionality that's already there? It takes only a |
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> minute or two to sign up for an account. No more than it takes to sign |
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> up for a mailing list. |
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Personally, I usually do like to keep a TODO list for my projects so I |
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can paste random stuff like URLs or snippets of e-mails into merely as a |
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"service to my users" if you will. However, like you say Catalyst isn't |
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really a project which exists for the user's sakes as such, so I can |
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certainly understand that you wouldn't want to make things more |
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complicated for yourself than absolutely necessary. |
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I'll shut up in a minute, but just a minor point: In my development |
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projects (both commercial and noncommercial) I've found that the best |
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way to avoid getting bug reports is to just consistently say "file a bug |
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report" whenever someone wants to report a bug. I'm not really sure why |
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that is; maybe it has something to do with a perception -- however |
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imagined or real it may be -- that all bug reporting systems are clunky |
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and annoying. Certainly bugzilla is _reasonable_ when compared to some |
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other systems, but it really doesn't compare to email when looking |
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solely at the "ease of reporting a bug" metric. From personal experience |
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I know that I'm about 1000 times more likely to file a bug if all I have |
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to do is send an email somewhere. Otherwise it just *feels* like I'm |
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doing work that a computer should be doing. |
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Cheers, |
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Bardur Arantsson |
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<bardurREMOVE@×××××××××××××××.net> |
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- Rakes... my old arch-enemy. |
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Sideshow Bob, 'The Simpsons' |
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