> There are already a lot of bug reports in n.p.m.general . The idea is to make
> people choose the .bugs newsgroup instead, and when they post their message, they
> are redirected to the FAQ page that says something like "This newsgroup is not
> for bug reports. Use Bugzilla instead. ..."
> Since all existing posts to this group will contain the URL of the FAQ page, many
> people will already read that page before they compose their message.
Cunning though this would be, my view is that it raises the barrier to
entry too high. I think that the other rearrangements we are making will
remove the number of bug reports in the dev newsgroups to tolerable
levels.
A better innovation would be for someone to write a document explaining
about how we handle bug reports, and how to submit a good one, and how to
get involved with QA on Mozilla - and then mail the URL, with an
explantion, to everyone who posts a bug report. We might catch a few
volunteers that way.
Gerv
