On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 10:01 AM, Matthew Miller <mat...@fedoraproject.org> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 05:31:31PM -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: >> > > So, what if we steer end users away from Bugzilla and bug-trackers >> > > completely² and to Ask Fedora³ instead? The triage team could [...] >> > But there's no triage team. Adding another layer of indirection without >> > a dedicated new workforce would likely just divert resources away >> > from the existing bug fixing process. >> And before anyone asks - we've tried to have a triage team several >> times and it has never really worked so far. It's a hard and relatively > > Right, so, this is part of the context for my idea above. There *isn't* > a triage team, but there *is* a community around Ask Fedora, and we > could build from that. It wouldn't be the same at all as previous > efforts to "bugzilla-garden"
I appreciate the idea, but I'm not sure it will actually pan out that way. Right now, the bulk of problem reports for users still go to bugzilla either via ABRT or manual filing. Ask is used more for true newbies or for issues where the person doesn't even know where to file the bug. The community helping there can handle the type and number of issues being reported. It's users helping users. If we start directing users to Ask instead of bugzilla in a coordinated effort, I'm afraid a few things will happen: a) The problem of maintainers ignoring bug reports will become even more prevalent because asking them to monitor multiple locations for problem reports. b) Regardless of whether A happens or not, we run the risk of information loss and excess process being implemented. Bugzilla and Ask could be linked somehow, but bridges rarely work well. c) We'll quickly burn the existing Ask community out. This works in IT because they have dedicated customer support teams. We do not. The problem we face is not really the tools we have, but the lack of people dedicated to customer support. Trying to jumpstart one from the Ask community seems to be asking an awful lot. josh _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
