Michael Stefaniuc wrote:
Austin English wrote:
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 9:30 PM, James McKenzie
<[email protected]> wrote:
Rosanne DiMesio wrote:
On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 17:08:30 +0200
Gert van den Berg <[email protected]> wrote:
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 16:23, James Mckenzie
<[email protected]> wrote:
Rosanne and you have a good point, but I would restrict it the limit to
four lines. You should be able to describe a valid bug in that space.
Anything more, and it becomes an attachement.
4 lines is horribly short... Especially for posting instructions to
reproduce problems, an overview of your system configuration, etc...
I agree. I've often exceeded 4 lines in comments.
I see your point. However, should it not be sufficient to state a problem
in ten lines or less? This prevents pasting lengthy logs, statements, etc.
in bugzilla? I'll go with that number then.
I've often seen 10 exceeded as well. Like earlier discussed, a regex
for fixme/err/etc. would be more useful.
What Austin says. E.g. a git bisect result is at minimum 9 lines long,
with more than 1 line of changelog it gets longer. And we do want those
pasted into the comment and not attached.
Again, I agree. What method do we want to use to prevent the post that
started this long conversation, that is the posting of a 'broken' patch
sequence?
I would say look for "what file to patch" or the actual wording used by
the patch program to state I cannot find the file to patch.
As to the catching of 'fixme/error/trace/etc. I'm for this as well using
regex. Capture it and post a warning. Flag the account. Give a set
number of warnings in a certain time period. Then lock the account.
The poster will have to ask permission to be allowed to post again.
Does this sound doable and is it permissible? I don't want folks
walking away because they cannot post, but if they are posting garbage
it doesn't help us. Also, give them a posting link if they cannot, for
some reason, add attachments. Sort of like a bugzilla for the Bugzilla
thing. If something is broken with Bugzilla we certainly should be
interested.
James McKenzie
