To be fair, a test stack isn't always required. They're actually pretty
flexible about that. What I meant in my post was that if the test does,
in fact, need a stack in order to adequately report it, I tend to
procrastinate because I'm almost always in the middle of something else.
If there's a workaround I just use it and the reporting may or may not
happen later on.
On 12/22/16 3:28 PM, Alex Tweedly wrote:
IMO, having a *requirement* for a user to create a test stack - EVEN IF
THE SIMPLE DESCRIPTION IS CLEAR AND UNAMBIGUOUS - is an unacceptable
bureaucratic nonsense.
I'm all in favour of creating test stacks to demonstrate a problem -
esp. if the originally failing stack is complex, or if this can save the
development team significant time. But if it is simply moving the time
burden from the developers to the users, then it's unreasonable.
I'd be OK with the situation of entering a bug with clear description -
and giving the developers the option to request a test stack; but to
impose that as a blanket, requirement before the bug will be properly
considered is not OK.
-- Alex.
On 22/12/2016 18:44, J. Landman Gay wrote:
On 12/22/16 11:46 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:
I would like to think that the introduction of the new external would
not require us to rewrite our apps.
Have you filed a bug report on that?
No, for a couple of reasons. First, it doesn't seem much different
than the need to close all running processes before quitting. Second,
if the report requires that I drop what I'm doing to create a test
stack, the bug is likely to go on hold, particularly if there's a
workaround.
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