[Bugsquad] Konqueror bugs - a few questions

["Gérard Talbot"]

> Hi,
>
> 2012/6/21 Myriam Schweingruber:
>>>> - When the bug is reproducible
>>>
>>> By the way, the word "reproducible" as a keyword
>>> https://bugs.kde.org/describekeywords.cgi
>>> does not exist. It's "reproduceable". Since a lot of us use
>>> reproducible,
>>> I wish both keyword spellings would be allowed.
>>
>> Well, a keyword can be changed, especially one with such a dreadful
>> spelling error,
>
> actually, both spellings exist. "Reproducible" may be more common than
> "reproduceable" though.
>
>> and I don't think it is actually needed, as a bug in
>> status NEW is confirmed. The wording is misleading currently, there is
>> a wish to the b.k.o maintainers to change the wording of the status
>> NEW to CONFIRMED
>
> The meaning of the keyword is: "Indicates that the bug is 100%
> reproduceable: the instructions are clear enough and the bug is
> deterministic enough, so that anyone who tries to reproduce the bug,
> hits it on the first try."
>
> This is not the case for a large number of NEW bugs, e.g.,
> a) crashes that have been confirmed by someone because it's known that
> they happen some of the time, but not always,
> b) bugs that have been "confirmed by popular vote",
> c) bugs that have been reported by users with bugzilla permissions,
> d) bugs that can only be reproduced on particular hardware, with a
> special combination of upstream libs, with distro-specific patches
> applied, ...
>
> The keyword was added by David Faure because he thought his time is
> best spent on bugs which are 100% reproducible and not on triaging
> bugs which are NEW, but cannot be reproduced.
>
> Best regards,
> Frank


Frank,

You are correct. It means that a lot of bug reports with the NEW status
were not appropriately triaged to begin with.

Many bug reports marked as NEW do not have a good description, a clear
explanation, a specified and formal actual and expected results
description; some do not even have an URL actually.

Gérard
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