Re: Talk: Reflections of a bigtime Debian bug reporter

2009-09-15 Thread Michael S Gilbert
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 23:19:12 +0200 Julien Cristau wrote: > On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 16:41:50 -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote: > > > the answer to the real problem is education. if a user didn't submit > > sufficient details in their report, politely ask them for more. show > > them a guide for strac

Re: Talk: Reflections of a bigtime Debian bug reporter

2009-09-15 Thread Julien Cristau
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 16:41:50 -0400, Michael Gilbert wrote: > the answer to the real problem is education. if a user didn't submit > sufficient details in their report, politely ask them for more. show > them a guide for strace, or bug writing guides, or debian > documentation, or whatever may

Re: Talk: Reflections of a bigtime Debian bug reporter

2009-09-15 Thread Sandro Tosi
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 22:41, Michael Gilbert wrote: > On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:46:31 +0530, Kartik Mistry wrote: >> On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: >> > Especially the 'what did you expect' is important, as it often make it >> > possible to differentiate between softwar

Re: Talk: Reflections of a bigtime Debian bug reporter

2009-09-15 Thread Vincent Danjean
Hi, Michael Gilbert wrote: > if you want to add something useful to reportbug, i would recommend > kind opening and closing remarks. for example, i've noticed that a bug > starting with 'hi' seems a lot friendlier and gets attention more > quickly than one with a 'hello', which seems more drawn

Re: Talk: Reflections of a bigtime Debian bug reporter

2009-09-15 Thread Michael Gilbert
On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 13:46:31 +0530, Kartik Mistry wrote: > On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > Especially the 'what did you expect' is important, as it often make it > > possible to differentiate between software bugs, documentation bugs > > and plan simple user expectat

Re: Talk: Reflections of a bigtime Debian bug reporter

2009-09-15 Thread Mike Hommey
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 01:46:31PM +0530, Kartik Mistry wrote: > On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > > Especially the 'what did you expect' is important, as it often make it > > possible to differentiate between software bugs, documentation bugs > > and plan simple user e

Re: Talk: Reflections of a bigtime Debian bug reporter

2009-09-15 Thread Kartik Mistry
On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > Especially the 'what did you expect' is important, as it often make it > possible to differentiate between software bugs, documentation bugs > and plan simple user expectation issues. May be 'reportbug' can give more template options l

Re: Talk: Reflections of a bigtime Debian bug reporter

2009-09-15 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Dan Jacobson] > Gentlemen, I shall be delivering my talk, > "Reflections of a bigtime Debian bug reporter" > http://jidanni.org/comp/bug_reporter.html Interesting topic. I had a look at your outline, and one particular thing I found missing was good instructions on what

Talk: Reflections of a bigtime Debian bug reporter

2009-09-14 Thread jidanni
Gentlemen, I shall be delivering my talk, "Reflections of a bigtime Debian bug reporter" http://jidanni.org/comp/bug_reporter.html at the 2009 Taiwan Mini Debian Conference http://wiki.debian.org/DebianTaiwan/MiniDebConf2009 2009/09/26-27. Please be gentle. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email