On Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:54:26 +1100 Ross McKay <[email protected]> wrote:
> Matthew Brush wrote: > > >I feel split on the issue TBH. At least with something like Github, > >it might not be "yet another thing to sign up for" like all the > >separate Bugzilla/Trac installations. There's some chance that the > >user will have a Github account, though it's probably not *that* > >likely, it's still useful for other things (same as SF.net account). > > > >I can understand wanting to make it easy to report bugs, but at the > >same time I can understand the argument that requiring registration > >will likely lead to better bug reports, ex. from people who are > >helping with testing. Many of the current "Nobody"/Anonymous bug > >reports are quite vague, quickly written, and even sometimes having > >a strange "attitude" in them. What's more since it's so easy, the > >reporters are probably more likely to quickly fill in the form and > >submit it before even bothering to search for duplicates or to know > >the bug reporting procedure outlined on the website (at least that's > >my theory). > > > >My personal opinion is that it's better to get less really good > >reports from testers in the community than to get many > >vague/duplicate bug reports from random anonymous people who are > >just pissed off because a bug is annoying them. > >[...] > > +1 to everything above. I reckon that many of those anonymous bug > reports are next to worthless for their minimal detail and that means > they end up reducing the signal to noise ratio. If someone isn't > already a member of either SF or GH and won't join up in order to > submit a bug report, what are the chances that the bug report is both > sufficiently detailed and not a duplicate? I can tell only for myself: I found a couple of bugs on wordpress, and some misbehaviors und firefox and a couple others more. As the I'm forced to register a new account on their plattforms the mood to report went against 0 so a couple of them I just fixed locally and didn't report upstream. Shame on me. But I don't want to do a 10min register marathon just for reporting one line is suboptimal. I'm fine with a bigger number of noise, if there are a bunch of maybe new reports which we wouldn't get else wise. Cheers, Frank -- http://frank.uvena.de/en/
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