Barry Warsaw writes: > On Feb 21, 2019, at 10:34, Raymond Hettinger <raymond.hettin...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > I think that anything that raises the cost of filing a bug report > > will work to our detriment. Ideally, we want the barriers to > > reporting to be as low as possible.
A template is probably counterproductive. A program that fills in the most of the template automatically would make the barrier lower than it currently is. > `python -m reportbug` could make the process even easier (too easy?). If badly designed it could make the process too easy (ie, fill the tracker with reports that triage to "closed as duplicate of #NNNNN"). We know a lot about this process now, though. For example, Launchpad and some other trackers ask you to input some keywords and tries to pull up related reports. The reportbug program could collect internal information (with an option it could suck up all the information Victor's program collects), ask the reporter a few simple questions, formulate the query (including both the generated information and the reporter's information), and open a browser window on the tracker. This would probably make a good GSoC project .... Steve -- Associate Professor Division of Policy and Planning Science http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp/ Faculty of Systems and Information Email: turnb...@sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tel: 029-853-5175 Tennodai 1-1-1, Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
