-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Chad wrote: >
>>drakbug is for people who don't subscribe to cooker. cookers are >>expected to be able to give better diagnostics than drakbug (ie >>intelligent bug reports as opposed to automated ones). > > > Exactly your'd want drakbug to be used by those who weren't on the cooker > list. Those who aren't on cooker list are generally the ones who produce the > worst bug reports! If you added the features I mentioned to drakbug and stuck > it on the desktop of the RC's in plain view it would probably cut down on the > number of bad bug reports that turn up. And having it grab data on > dependencies, Version and hardware would help in alot of bugs. Think back to > the isa sound card problem that was in cooker last week it took half a dozen > emails before it was found out that the card was an ISA version. > The biggest problem there was the user not doing what he was asked to do, while flatly refusing to listen to what the developers told him about his card. He would most likely have complained that drakbug misrepresented his hardware anyway. And we only have the influx of bad bug reports from about RC1 onwards anyway. If you're going to add 'cooker' to the name of a tool, it had better have some value the other 85% of the time. Buchan - -- |--------------Another happy Mandrake Club member--------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x121 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE+eF2hrJK6UGDSBKcRAmB5AJ4gFOhtQbY2vTe8S1ObLMKORTpGLACgnkU8 osCqP8LFOYAtDR60I3OG+mw= =yU07 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
