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