2011/2/14 Diederik van Liere <[email protected]>: > I am not following this line of reasoning: how can adding guidance / > instructions on how to write a good bug report turn people away?
It's very simple, really: a form with a lot of fields may turn people away. I know that it turns me away. How many people are like me in this regard? That is someone that should be studied. I still do report bugs in Firefox, despite the many field in the form, but i can easily imagine people who won't. > In a previous life, I have studied the factors that shorten the time > required to fix a big. Bugreports that contain steps to reproduce are a > significant predictor to shorten > the time to fix a bug. You can find the paper here: > http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1507233 That makes perfect sense, but that's the developer side side of the question. I'm talking about the user side. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
