On Sáb 28 Sep 2002 01:07, Joey Hess wrote: > Jan-Oliver Wagner wrote: > > why not decribed technical differences in 1 or 2 sentences? > > If there are none I don't understand why there are still two of them. > > The only reasons bug still exists are: > > 1. More minimal requirements as it does not need python and is > porportedly faster. Less and less of an issue every day as more and > more people have python installed anyway and cpu speeds increase (I > use reportbug on my 486 anyway). > 2. Inertia. > 3. Because its (MIA[1]) maintainer will not see the light that having two > bug reporting tools is more confusing than it could possibly be worth. 4. > Because we cannot seem to work together as a project to make > reasonable decisions for our users on points which really Don't Matter. > Sigh. > > None of these are reasons to confuse neophyte bug reporters who are > looking for some comprehensible instructions for filing a bug report on > the web site. Except 4 anyway. By contrast, by encoraging all of our > users to use reportbug, we can get more, better bug reports by: > > 1. Not confusing or offputting them; loweing their time outlay. > 2. Making sure they use an appropriate severity, something reportbug is > rather more advanced in. > 3. Helping them find existing packages before filing their bug report. > 4. Helping the user set useful tags. > 5. Dumping debconf information, other data gathering.
Then I strongly vote for preferring reportbug over bug in the bug reporting page. If Nicolás is MIA, is not our issue. reportbug is far more friendly and full of features. Period. > See bug #56804 for a laugh. :-D Ender. -- Why is a cow? Mu. (Ommmmmmmmmm) -- Servicios de red - Network services Centro de Comunicaciones CSIC/RedIRIS Spanish Academic Network for Research and Development Madrid (Spain) Tlf (+34) 91.585.49.05