On Thu, 12 May 2005, Mike Hearn wrote:
On Wed, 11 May 2005 21:11:40 -0500, Dustin Navea wrote:I was wondering if there was a better way to post them? Ill keep that in mind from now on.
Well, I'm a bit dubious as to the value of posting bugs here anyway, we have wine-bugs for that. If it really does motivate people to work on them though then I guess it'd be OK.
I think if the bugs have been well diagnosed, which appears to be the case here, it can be useful to bring them to the attention of the developers: we all know that Wine developers tend to know about enough bugs already that they don't really scrub Bugzila trying to find one :-/.
But some more information directly in the email could be useful. I was not necessarily thinking about the last comment or the subject line but more:
* a more catchy subject than 'bug 2931'
(which is not to say that the bug number should not be mention in the subject)
* small description of the bug
(so that readers at least know if it's a DirectX issue or an ntdll one, a developer working on the former would probably not be interested in bugs related to the latter)
* which application is affected
* URL to the bug
* changelog of the patch that was identified as causing the regression
* quick analysis of the problem (if possible)
With that information a developper reading only the email will know whether it's worth digging deeper and actually looking at the bug report and patch.
Also I think it's good that someone checks and cleans up Bugzilla. Dustin, keep up the good work.
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