Bug reporting for KDE 4

Matt Rogers mattr at kde.org
Sun Oct 28 23:45:35 GMT 2007


On Oct 28, 2007, at 4:41 PM, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:

> On Sunday 28 October 2007, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
>> While your mail sounds good, I have the feeling using a mailing  
>> list for
>> bug reporting is a step backwards. I agree that reporting bugs for a
>> project in a quite buggy state in the official bug tracker also feels
>> wrong.
>>
>> Bug trackers have advantages over emails, like you can't delete  
>> bugs, you
>> can mark them as closed, you also get emails on changes etc.
>> Reporting a bug in bugzilla is quite some work, also searching in  
>> bugzilla.
>
> personally i'd hope to use such a list for reporting little things  
> that can be
> fixed quickly, or determining is something is more complex and  
> should be
> filed on bugs.kde.org
>
> we should also consider augmenting this with Bug Squashing Days on  
> irc. this
> worked really well for techbase when we were doing that as well as for
> projects like edu and games. why not for libs/base too? =)
>
> in fact, i'll host such a thing this saturday and announce it on my  
> blog right
> now.

Well, you might want to wait until bugs.kde.org is working first. ;)
--
Matt






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