J. Landman Gay wrote:
On 1/27/05 11:54 AM, Alex Tweedly wrote:
>
> The recipe is "every stack I've tried does this" - but that's already in
> the report.
>
> If you have a recipe that doesn't exhibit this behaviour on WinXP,
> please let me know and we can try to eliminate differences.
The key I was missing was that double-clicking a stack to lauch the app causes the problem. In the support requests we've received, none of the people specified that they were doing that, which is why I couldn't reproduce it (because I always have Rev running, I was testing by opening stacks from the File menu.) Now that I know the cause, I've entered it into the bug report and we should be all set.
That's unfortunate. That aspect is pretty clearly described in 2138 (at least, I think it is, but since I wrote it, I'm probably biased about how "clearly" it is written :-)
I think what this shows is a problem due to Bugzilla being rather poor at helping people to find "related" or "similar" bug reports. This thread has mentioned 4 or 5 reports (and I know there are at two more not mentioned in this thread) which are somehow related - though there are (at a guess) at least two distinct underlying problems.
I strongly suspect that if you had read 2138 at the same time as you read some of the other reports, it would have been clear (or at least clearer) that this was the way to reproduce the problem.
Possible ways to alleviate this Bugzilla problem ?
- clearer guidelines (help) on choosing the component
- perhaps more components, with finer granularity
- a policy that all bugs submitted should be reviewed (and reclassified into the right component)
(either use a new category, so they move from "initial" to "unconfirmed" at this point, so that the submitter
knows it has been looked at)
- perhaps a "keyword" scheme (e.g. if these reports had all had keyword "cursor" it would help to correlate them).
Thanks for being patient with me today - I'm sorry if my frustration has been showing.
-- Alex.
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