Martin, you're very welcome. > A general point about your suggestions: You seem to assume that > bug reports are typically entered via the R-bugs web interface
Yes, that was the premiss of my suggestions. Perhaps to supplement these ideas, bug.report() could be rewritten to prompt useful information, much as prompt() does. And simple e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] could be filtered to only allow entries from R core, and/or a list of registered beta testers. > actually we have been thinking of moving to bugzilla -- if only > Peter Dalgaard could find a smart enough person (even to be paid) > who'd port all the old bug reports into the new format.. I see that this would be useful. What are the challenges? If funding is available, then I wonder if any of the linked organizations might be suitable? http://www.bugzilla.org/support/consulting.html > As you've remarked below, I've expressed gratitude more than once > for helpful bug reports. Absolutely, and the effect is appreciated. Sadly, the average user struggles to distinguish between a helpful and an unhelpful bug report before sending it. > indeed I was, partly. The point was just that if the bug > reporting will be something like a challenge with prizes, we had > to discourage too many entries {which would be made just to try > to win (a|the) prize}. Yes, I see that. I really don't think that we need prizes; I really do think that we need to create an environment that actively mitigates against the kinds of error that you/we find so frustrating. A sort of TQM strategy. Cheers Andrew -- Andrew Robinson Senior Lecturer in Statistics Tel: +61-3-8344-9763 Department of Mathematics and Statistics Fax: +61-3-8344-4599 University of Melbourne, VIC 3010 Australia Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel