> Hi, > > 2012/6/21 Myriam Schweingruber: >>>> - When the bug is reproducible >>> >>> By the way, the word "reproducible" as a keyword >>> https://bugs.kde.org/describekeywords.cgi >>> does not exist. It's "reproduceable". Since a lot of us use >>> reproducible, >>> I wish both keyword spellings would be allowed. >> >> Well, a keyword can be changed, especially one with such a dreadful >> spelling error, > > actually, both spellings exist. "Reproducible" may be more common than > "reproduceable" though. > >> and I don't think it is actually needed, as a bug in >> status NEW is confirmed. The wording is misleading currently, there is >> a wish to the b.k.o maintainers to change the wording of the status >> NEW to CONFIRMED > > The meaning of the keyword is: "Indicates that the bug is 100% > reproduceable: the instructions are clear enough and the bug is > deterministic enough, so that anyone who tries to reproduce the bug, > hits it on the first try." > > This is not the case for a large number of NEW bugs, e.g., > a) crashes that have been confirmed by someone because it's known that > they happen some of the time, but not always, > b) bugs that have been "confirmed by popular vote", > c) bugs that have been reported by users with bugzilla permissions, > d) bugs that can only be reproduced on particular hardware, with a > special combination of upstream libs, with distro-specific patches > applied, ... > > The keyword was added by David Faure because he thought his time is > best spent on bugs which are 100% reproducible and not on triaging > bugs which are NEW, but cannot be reproduced. > > Best regards, > Frank
Frank, You are correct. It means that a lot of bug reports with the NEW status were not appropriately triaged to begin with. Many bug reports marked as NEW do not have a good description, a clear explanation, a specified and formal actual and expected results description; some do not even have an URL actually. Gérard -- Konqueror Implementation Report of CSS 2.1 test suite (RC6): 9418 testcases http://www.gtalbot.org/BrowserBugsSection/Konqueror4Bugs/Konq-IR-CSS21TestSuite.html 55 Bugs in Konqueror 4.7 http://www.gtalbot.org/BrowserBugsSection/Konqueror4Bugs/ Contributions to the CSS 2.1 test suite http://www.gtalbot.org/BrowserBugsSection/css21testsuite/ CSS 2.1 Test suite RC6, March 23rd 2011 http://test.csswg.org/suites/css2.1/20110323/html4/toc.html _______________________________________________ Kde-testing mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-testing
