Bugreporting barrier is too low with the new Dr. Konqi

Mark Kretschmann kretschmann at kde.org
Wed Nov 4 06:27:47 GMT 2009


On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 7:20 AM, John Tapsell <johnflux at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/11/4 Mark Kretschmann <kretschmann at kde.org>:
>> On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 5:03 AM, Matt Rogers <mattr at kde.org> wrote:
>>> On Monday 02 November 2009 15:34:20 Shaun Reich wrote:
>>>> On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 7:40 PM, Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org> wrote:
>>>> > A Dilluns, 2 de novembre de 2009, Andreas Pakulat va escriure:
>>>> >> it seems like the bugreporting barrier is too low now that Dr. Konqi has
>>>> >> a "report this bug" button. In particular users are not presented with a
>>>> >> list of possible duplicate reports according to the backtrace
>>>> >> information and reproduction steps they supplied.
>>>> >
>>>> > Last time i reported a but using the new Dr Konqi i think i got a list of
>>>> > duplicate reports.
>>>> >
>>>> > Albert
>>>>
>>>> Likewise. Although I think it was easily skippable, last time I had to use
>>>>  it. The duplicate checker actually is pretty nice, along with other
>>>> aspects, and in my opinion better than BKO. But that's coming from a
>>>> person who hates BKO.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Knowing what you hate about BKO (private mail is fine for this) would help.
>>> This will let me actually work on fixing it. :)
>>
>> Matt, you are doing a great job with maintaining BKO, big thanks for
>> this. In fact I admire you for your patience with it.
>>
>> However, at this point I don't think that any amount of fixes could
>> save it. Its problems are systematic and fundamental. Cosmetic changes
>> can only go so far.
>
> *rolls eyes*.  Do we have to be so melodramatic?

Melodramatic? Maybe that eye rolling does it to you :)

So anyway, don't reply to this, you made your point. Last thing we
need is a melodramatic flame war.

-- 
Mark Kretschmann
Amarok Developer
www.kde.org - amarok.kde.org




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