Thomas Ferris Nicolaisen <[email protected]> writes:
> At the Dev Summit, I mentioned this gist I've got lined up for
> whenever someone should consider sending an email to this list:
>
> https://gist.github.com/tfnico/4441562
>
> It's a handy link to share in some encounters, exemplified by Konstantin here:
>
> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/git-users/Md72iVvPHqw/Zi3yFIRrR2AJ
>
> I see that Peff already improved the git-scm.com/community late last
> year to cover some of the same points, but it is weighed a bit
> differently. Perhaps someone here would prefer to use my gist when
> redirecting people with "user questions" away from this list, or
> inspire them to write better bug reports.
As to "better bug reports", I often find people pointing others to
http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html
Even in a better report that gives specific precondition, input,
environment and output, sometimes I see one thing that is crucial
missing: what the user expected to see and how the output is
different from that expectation. Such a "bug report" may report the
designed behaviour, leaving the developers to scratch their heads,
"yeah, thanks for a detailed write-up, we can reproduce it exactly,
and everything is working as expected---how did you expect it to
work in what different way and why?".
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