[Kmymoney-devel] [Bug 281072] Crash on opening Help/Authors

[Konstantin Svist]

On 08/30/2011 05:35 PM, Jack wrote:
> On 2011.08.30 20:01, Konstantin Svist wrote:
>> https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=281072
>>
>> --- Comment #3 from Konstantin Svist <fry kun gmail com>  2011-08-31 
>> 00:01:08 ---
>> I've noticed these crashes too. Maybe you should put that issue into 
>> errata.
>>
>> -- 
> To the list and not the bug.
>
> Definitely an interesting thought, but where would we publish it?  By 
> the time it would be included in the next version, most of the bugs 
> are fixed.  We still need to consolidate and update the information on 
> our various web pages, but I suppose it could be put with the FAQ 
> page.  The main problem I see is that anybody who would take the time 
> to hunt down such a page would probably also be willing to check the 
> bug list, unless we can reference it more prominently in several 
> places (in the manual, on the help/about dialog, and on our main web 
> pages.)
>
> I think at the moment, this list and the user list constitute what 
> there is of an errata.
>
> Jack


Actually, I've found that it's pretty hard to navigate bug lists and 
mailing lists for the average user. Problem is too much information and 
to be able to sift through it you have to know what to look for (often 
that implies knowing the programmers' slang).
What I was thinking of is something like Fedora's errata page (e.g. 
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Common_F15_bugs). It lists in plain 
English two dozen or so common bugs for the given version. Users can 
quickly check it for the bug they're struggling with, before reporting 
to bug tracker, etc.

As for leaving it until the new version - Fedora 15 (current) for some 
reason isn't even updating to 4.6.0. Even if you release the new fixed 
version today, they might not push it out until F16, several months 
later. Worse yet, lots of users don't always update to the latest distro 
and get left behind