Re: [gentoo-dev] bugzilla suggestion: have stable and unstable in version drop down

[Yi Qiang]

On 18:04 Mon 31 May     , Drake Wyrm wrote:
> At 2004-05-31T19:32:31-0400, Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2004-05-31 at 15:56, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > > On Monday 31 May 2004 03:24 pm, stan wrote:
> > > > or masked and unmasked etc
> > > > So that bugs against ~x86, ~ppc64 etc can be differentiated more easily
> > > > from reports on packages that have been marked stable.
> > >
> > > i dont think it'd really be used all that often
> >
> > I would have to agree.  Especially since most people don't use half the
> > drop downs as it is... so much so that I barely even notice what is in
> > them, since 95% of the time, it is simply the defaults and gives no
> > information.  I *will* look there before requesting that information
> > from the user, but as I said, it tends to always be the defaults.
>
> Would it be the least bit helpful if non-devs who wish to help went
> through incoming bug reports and made sure that all the relevant
> information was there?
>
> --
> Batou: Hey, Major... You ever hear of "human rights"?
> Kusanagi: I understand the concept, but I've never seen it in action.
>   --Ghost in the Shell

It would be an incredibly dull task, but if people would like to help in that area, it would be greatly appreciated.  Also, I don't buy the argument that because people don't use some of the options now (or they use it incorrectly) we should not implement helpful features.  I think this would help bring up queries against bugs in the stable tree vs bugs in the "testing" tree. (If this can be done now, please inform me).  I believe the major reason why people can not report bugs correctly is because of lack of documentation for it.  In that respect, I am planning to write a Bug Reporting HOWTO (gentoo specific) in similar fashion to liquidx's Common Ebuild Mistakes document.

Regards,
Yi