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Ben Lutgens wrote: |
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> On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 12:12:45AM +0200, Stefano Peluchetti wrote: |
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>>I know of this problem. |
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>>The thing that amazes me is that i very rarely find a bug report for the |
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>>ebuild that doesn't work for me. I usaually commit the bugs i find but |
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>>now it seems clear that some people does'nt do so. |
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>>I thing it could be a good idea at this point to introduce an automatic |
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>>(user indipendent) bug report in portage, so that if ebuild compiling |
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>>fails or some other errors arise, portage automagically submit a bug to |
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>>the bug dabatabase of gentoo. That should speed up bugfixing (at lease |
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>>for the majors bugs that prevent even building) and should' nt be that |
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>>hard to implement in portage. |
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> People would go postal if gentoo was making network connections from thier |
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> boxen to our servers without thier knowledge. And rightly so. |
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> I'm in favor of an interactive bug report tool but bugzilla wouldn't |
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> facilitate that very well. Frankly I'd rather the users take a few mins to |
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> verify they have a bug, organize thier thoughts about it and then post. |
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> And please, please, don't use bugzilla as a discussion board for your |
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> issues, work them out on the lists or forums untill you know it's a bug. |
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Ok, but a simple message like: |
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"A problem arise with e-build xxx. Could i automaitcally submit a bug |
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report for you? [Y/N]" should'nt do the work? |
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Also a little wizard that places needed information for bug report could |
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be a different soluction. |
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But i think that this will make the work easier only for user who wants |
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to spend their time submitting bugs. I may be wrong, but i thnink that a |
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lot of gentoo user doesn't submit bug reports (as mantainer alway |
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says!). And things won't change (i hope i'm wrong but....) |
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To me it didn't sound that bad to have an used indipendent suluction. |
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Myabe an intermediate soluction? ( a spearate bug report database, where |
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mantainer looks, and decide to submit a bug to the official database |
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(it' a real bug! :D )or discard it (the user is an idiot! :P ). |
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Thanks. |
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Stefano Pelux |
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