Of course you have the final word on the matter, but I'd like at least to voice the arguments in favor of using only the bug tracker, even when it only "might" be a bug:
1) the bug-tracker is designed to handle this situation, allowing discussion until the 'maybe' bug can be deemed invalid or only a feature-request (wishlist), or requiring more info from the user. 2) Simply by looking at Vincent's list of steps to go through makes it clear to me that not having all "potential" or real bugs in one place is a mistake, because it makes it difficult for people to find out if their bug has already been brought up, or in the case that it only appears to be a bug, to find out that it isn't one and was closed/ marked invalid with a clear justification of why. 3) If it's not made into a more-or-less 'rigid' rule that bugs be filed in one place, then true bugs will continue to be scattered across several information-sources, make them difficult to search. Granted, it would be possible for people to ask on the list "have you encountered this?", but if they have a better way of searching for it in advance, it could cut down on the amount of such messages, which just make for busywork on the part of you and others to try to remember/find where an issue was addressed/discussed. Ultimately the "signal to noise ratio" in the newsgroup would be improved. 4) By having bug-related stuff only in Launchpad, the group mailinglist can be used for more interesting discussions related to directions to take Leo, or ways of using it -- a place where people can ask "I'm trying to do X -- is this possible with Leo?" -- but if the group is swamped by "Leo crashes when I do X" messages, then some of these other messages get lost in the noise, and maybe people are discouraged from posting them since they think this is a list just for developers / bug fixing. This is not to say that there's anything wrong with referring to a bug which has been filed in this group, to bring it to people's attention, but I think it really does make a major difference to have the interaction and reporting of 'issues' (perceieved or real) to be in one place that provides a good overview and allows people to easily search only for bugs. (that's another point -- if the list has bugs +other stuff in it, then finding bugs in it, even by using the search dialog, becomes more difficult because the 'noise' in this case will be the non-bug messages). Ok, that's all ;) On Jan 30, 2:07 pm, "Edward K. Ream" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 2:42 AM, edgimar <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Please file a bug athttps://bugs.launchpad.net/leo-editor/+filebug, > > and continue any discussion there. Thanks. > > I'd like to disagree with this suggestion. > > I don't mind putting real bugs in the bug tracker, but I don't to put every > last item on Leo's to-do list there. > > In fact, I would prefer that we discuss items that might be bugs here first, > and if we agree that something deserves to be called a bug we can make a > bug-list entry. If desired, the bug report can reference the url for the > discussion here. > > Edward --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
