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*From:* Илья Шипицин [mailto:[email protected]]
*Sent:* Thursday, September 19, 2019, 15:10 EDT
*To:* HAProxy <[email protected]>
*Subject:* [PATCH] improving github experience, kindly ask people to
reproduce bugs on latest haproxy
hello,
please find attached patch
Ilya Shipitsin
I dunno, I've personally never been fond of it when bug reporters are
blindly asked to upgrade to the latest version. Sometimes the request is
justified, such as when the project maintainers have reason to believe
the bug is fixed, or if the version is years old. But otherwise it can
causes difficulties for the reporter. In corporate environments, it can
be difficult to perform such upgrades. Sometimes these issues are only
reproducible in production environments. So by asking them to upgrade,
you're making them go through the difficulty, and potentially cause
impact to their clients. And because that process can take a while, it's
possible that by the time they do complete the upgrade, another version
has been released.
I personally also find the use of heavy bug templates, with nuanced
little checkboxes to be annoying. In this case more so because we
already ask them to provide the version information, which answers the
question the checkbox is for. And the checkbox "yes i'm on the latest"
might be accurate at the time of submission, but can become out of date.
Now all that said, I'm not against encouraging people to try a later
version if available. Just that I don't think it should be the expectation.
-Patrick
