On 10.10.2017 17:03, Roland Hughes wrote: > > If YOU need a copy of something which clearly will not fit within the > confines of the bug tracker system YOU take the additional time to > copy it. > > Turning your argument around, what happens when your current bug > tracking system disappears and is replaced by something else? You > _still_ lose the history. > The bug tracking system is under our control - it will not just disappear (from our perspective). We could replace it some day in the future, but not without transferring the knowledge to a new system. Your blog post might just disappear (from our perspective) - I have seen situations like that often enough. Stackoverflow also demands that you briefly state what you find on a page you link (and for the same reason).
Also, the blog post contains a lot of informations that are irrelevant to the bugreport (like where you got the instruction, the complaints of the other readers of that how-to, the complaint about the reliability of how-tos on the internet in general, etc.) Filtering out the relevant parts is really not our job. > > A deep bug history is only necessary when bugs are allowed to rot for > decades. All actual changes must be accompanied by comments with the > bug fix so the source code keeps its own history. > I try to be more verbose - describe the problem briefly, describe the different things that I changed and what their relation to the problem is - but I have seen commits that basically had the description "Fix QTBUG-XXXXX". Lastly I would like to point out that improving the bug report would probably have taken less time than what you have invested on this complaint. -- Viktor Engelmann Software Engineer The Qt Company GmbH Rudower Chaussee 13 D-12489 Berlin [email protected] +49 151 26784521 http://qt.io Geschäftsführer: Mika Pälsi, Juha Varelius, Mika Harjuaho Sitz der Gesellschaft: Berlin, Registergericht: Amtsgericht Charlottenburg, HRB 144331 B The Future is Written with Qt www.qtworldsummit.com _______________________________________________ Interest mailing list [email protected] http://lists.qt-project.org/mailman/listinfo/interest
