Am Samstag, 13. Mai 2006 15:38 schrieb Gregory Pittman: > Searching for bugs can be very time consuming. It's hard to imagine what > it's like for the developers, but it seems the end result is an > ever-increasing and more confusing list of reports. > > I would think there needs to be some kind of front-end weeding out > process. One particular category that tends to stockpile is for feature > requests. While many seem well intentioned, they can be difficult to > understand, ill-conceived, and probably best seen in the context of > other requests of a similar nature as well as the roadmap. > > Also, extreme things, like Sig 11 crashes, at this point (in my > experience) tend to be very transient problems with a particular version > that get fixed as soon as they come to attention. Yet they can lead to > repetitive reports when someone uses that brief "bad" version. Perhaps > there could be a list of at least recent cvs versions with date that > could be labeled as "bad" or "do not use - update". > > When I have reported bugs, I find some of the decisions about labels to > be difficult: what category, how severe. Maybe there could be a > rethinking about how bugs are reported to help with these decisions. > > Greg
As a (provisional) solution I suggest the following: 1. We need to create more metabugs. Their number and their content is yet to be determined. I have started with one including all reports related to groups: http://bugs.scribus.net/view.php?id=3812 2. The categories need to be presented in structured, if possible hierarchical manner somewhere. Example: + Vector graphics +Import + SVG + EPS/PS + PDF + Other + Export + SVG + EPS/PS + PDF + Other + Drawing +SVG +EPS/PS As you see, it will be possible to have several metabugs for one item (e. g. SVG). I suggest a Wiki page for this structured list. 3. The link to this page needs to be added to the Wiki article on bug reports. #1 is a lot of work, but in the long term it would save a lot of time for those who want to report a bug and those who try to keep track of this all. What do you think? Christoph
