On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 9:59 AM, Sumana Harihareswara
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Brian, would you take a look at
> https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/How_to_report_a_bug and maybe update it
> to clarify what sorts of information to try to hold on to for debugging
> purposes?

What sort of debugging information is useful depends on the situation.
In most cases the type of information I mentioned would be overkill.

>>
>> A little gratitude to someone trying to help you fix a problem
>> wouldn't go amiss...

We appreciate the bug report, we just can't do anything about it
without more information. To give a  (not entirely fair) comparison,
imagine someone posted on your talk page that there was a spelling
error on Wikipedia. I assume you would respond to such a report with
"where?", it wouldn't be because you're ungrateful that you respond
like that, but simply that you cannot fix the issue without more
information (Wikipedia is a big place). The situation here is somewhat
similar. We're grateful for the report, but would need more
information before we can do anything about it.

--bawolff

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