Hi,
On Thursday 22 March 2007 13:55, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote:
Hmmm, if we do that, we could probably start handing out accounts for
this web-based bug submission system, so that people who report more
than one bug only need to answer once to such a mail. Hmmm, that sounds
like we're
Hi,
On Friday 16 March 2007 00:49, Steve Langasek wrote:
A large fraction of bug reports are bad or incomplete, so you need to
ensure that you can contact bug submitters for more information.
HTTP doesn't give you a callback mechanism, so you need to be able to tie
the web submission back to
Holger Levsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Friday 16 March 2007 00:49, Steve Langasek wrote:
A large fraction of bug reports are bad or incomplete, so you need to
ensure that you can contact bug submitters for more information.
HTTP doesn't give you a callback mechanism, so you need to be
On Sat, 2007-03-17 at 23:38 +0100, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
I still would like to have a search mechanism on the bug titles list.
Okay, after searching through the list of bugs open against reportbug, I
found that this feature has been already requested twice: #358472 and
#358760. Of
* Paul Wise [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-03-19 00:57]:
The text interface of reportbug has the filter/search feature already:
(1-15/15) Is the bug you found listed above [y|N|m|r|q|s|f|?]? ?
snip
f - Filter bug list using a pattern.
? - Display this help.
Very handy for wnpp :)
Thanks for
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 02:21:02PM -0700, Don Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
So to summarize you want tags which have the ability to be mutually
exclusive?
That could be a part of the solution. What I believe is necessary is a
workflow for the bug, pretty much like the one with bugzilla,
On Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 09:09:43AM +0100, Mike Hommey wrote:
Considering team work and stuff like this, an assigned status would be
good too, with possibility, like forwarded, to specify an email address
of the person dealing with the bug. That would make it clear, in teams,
if bugs are dealt
Le vendredi 16 mars 2007 à 12:34 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez a écrit :
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 08:40:15AM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
Just try Bugzilla. Really. It has some major issues, but it is also
considerably more advanced than debbugs in several domains.
Yes, I have used buzilla
On Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 07:42:26PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
Le vendredi 16 mars 2007 à 12:34 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez a écrit :
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 08:40:15AM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
Just try Bugzilla. Really. It has some major issues, but it is also
considerably more
On Sat, 17 Mar 2007, Mike Hommey wrote:
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 02:21:02PM -0700, Don Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
So to summarize you want tags which have the ability to be mutually
exclusive?
That could be a part of the solution.
File the wishlist bug, please.
an assigned
* Rafael Laboissiere [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-03-16 14:44]:
* Paul Wise [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-03-16 20:11]:
Try reportbug -u urwid. There is also -u newt, but it doesn't seem to
work and has a big warning.
Thanks. I did not know that this existed. I still would like to have a
search
On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Steve Langasek wrote:
I (continue to) object to the notion of web-based submission of bugs to
Debian. Do you really think that someone who can't maneuver reportbug is
capable of submitting a useful bug report?
IMHO the biggest problem of reportbug is that it is not
On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 15:06 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
I (continue to) object to the notion of web-based submission of bugs to
Debian. Do you really think that someone who can't maneuver reportbug is
capable of submitting a useful bug report?
yes, actually. wrt web based interfaces: sure,
Andreas Tille schrieb:
IMHO the biggest problem of reportbug is that it is not announced in the
end of the install process. I have seen so many (even skilled) Debian
users who were not aware that there is something like reportbug. IMHO
this definitely has to be advertised at at least one of
Le jeudi 15 mars 2007 à 20:10 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez a écrit :
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 12:52:24AM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
This is true for the initial report. But you also gain something
bugzilla has and reportbug doesn't: you can crawl on the website, find
an interesting bug,
Le jeudi 15 mars 2007 à 20:34 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez a écrit :
What will a web interface provide that cannot be found/done by browsing
http://bugs.debian.org/src:pkgname ?
A way for us to manage our 1600 bugs?
E.g. something like this:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/browse.cgi?product=nautilus
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 04:14:40PM -0300, Gustavo Franco wrote:
It was me that mentioned about the web submission in platform. I would
Sorry for not mentioning you, I frankly forgot to, but even Sam
mentioned that :) Thanks for your interest!
I also prefer if the student can integrate this
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 03:06:33PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
I (continue to) object to the notion of web-based submission of bugs to
Debian. Do you really think that someone who can't maneuver reportbug is
capable of submitting a useful bug report?
Frankly no (even though the l10n example
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jan Michael C. Alonzo) writes:
Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
A large fraction of bug reports are bad or incomplete, so you need to ensure
that you can contact bug submitters for more information.
HTTP doesn't give you a callback mechanism, so you need to be
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007, Bastian Venthur wrote:
I know this is gonna be flamed down, but I'm feelin' brave today so
let's try it anyway:
4) put an reportbug-ng icon on the desktop by default on every
fresh installation
I know this smells like the classic AOL-Button on every
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 07:59:02PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote:
This feature has to be implemented as an add on module to debbugs or
entirely separately. It can use the Debbugs:: modules if it must, but
it really should pull any information it requires using the soap
interface so it doesn't
* Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au [2007-03-16 13:03]:
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 10:23:09PM +, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
A GUI version of reportbug would be nice, though. Having to open a terminal
and deal with clumsy line based user interfaces is not a hindrance, but
it is an obstacle,
On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 11:52 +0100, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
Instead of a GUI or a web interface, what I would love to have is a
curses-capable version of reportbug. As someone mentioned elsewhere in this
thread, browsing wnpp bug report titles in reportbug is a real pain. A
curses
Am Freitag, den 16.03.2007, 20:11 +0900 schrieb Paul Wise:
On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 11:52 +0100, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
Instead of a GUI or a web interface, what I would love to have is a
curses-capable version of reportbug. As someone mentioned elsewhere in this
thread, browsing wnpp
* Paul Wise [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-03-16 20:11]:
On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 11:52 +0100, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
Instead of a GUI or a web interface, what I would love to have is a
curses-capable version of reportbug. As someone mentioned elsewhere in this
thread, browsing wnpp bug report
Thomas == Thomas Weber [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 11:52 +0100, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:
Try reportbug -u urwid. There is also -u newt, but it doesn't seem to
work and has a big warning.
Any chance of including this information in reportbug's manpage? The
--help
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 08:19:42AM +0100, sean finney wrote:
and wrt the suggestion of just use webmail posted later on: this would
also count as a web based interface, and imo would be the worst kind
since you have no automatic information gathering, no input checking,
and it's rather
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 08:40:15AM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
Le jeudi 15 mars 2007 à 20:10 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez a écrit :
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 12:52:24AM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
This is true for the initial report. But you also gain something
bugzilla has and
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 08:42:57AM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
Le jeudi 15 mars 2007 à 20:34 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez a écrit :
What will a web interface provide that cannot be found/done by browsing
http://bugs.debian.org/src:pkgname ?
A way for us to manage our 1600 bugs?
E.g.
I demand that Christian Perrier may or may not have written...
[snip]
Actually, I'm among the ppl who discourage the use of diff files for PO
files.
The various differences in formatting behaviour of the PO editing
tools, versions of gettext utilities and the like usually generate too
much
On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 12:34 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
The simple fact that anyone having submitted a comment to a bug is
automatically added to the CC list for later comments is something that
should be trivial to implement. Instead, we have a bloated and useless
subscription
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 05:37:25PM +, Ross Burton wrote:
On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 12:34 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
The simple fact that anyone having submitted a comment to a bug is
automatically added to the CC list for later comments is something that
should be trivial to
On Fri, 16 Mar 2007, Josselin Mouette wrote:
Le jeudi 15 mars 2007 à 20:34 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez a écrit :
What will a web interface provide that cannot be found/done by browsing
http://bugs.debian.org/src:pkgname ?
A way for us to manage our 1600 bugs?
You can do this by using
On Fri, 16 Mar 2007, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 07:59:02PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote:
This feature has to be implemented as an add on module to debbugs or
entirely separately. It can use the Debbugs:: modules if it must, but
it really should pull any information it
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 01:01:06PM -0700, Don Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Fri, 16 Mar 2007, Josselin Mouette wrote:
Le jeudi 15 mars 2007 à 20:34 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez a écrit :
What will a web interface provide that cannot be found/done by browsing
On Fri, 16 Mar 2007, Mike Hommey wrote:
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 01:01:06PM -0700, Don Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
If you want features like this, the right thing to do is file
wishlist bugs against debbugs or bugs.debian.org instead of
complaining on -devel or worse, silently
Hi all,
I'm willing to present a Debian project proposal for the Google Summer
of Code [1] for implementing a web frontend for reporting bugs to the
Debian BTS. I'm volunteering for being a mentor for such a project. I've
expertise in the field of usability and I know, as an user, debbugs
On 3/15/07, Stefano Zacchiroli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all,
I'm willing to present a Debian project proposal for the Google Summer
of Code [1] for implementing a web frontend for reporting bugs to the
Debian BTS. I'm volunteering for being a mentor for such a project. I've
expertise in the
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 07:28:11PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
Hi all,
I'm willing to present a Debian project proposal for the Google Summer
of Code [1] for implementing a web frontend for reporting bugs to the
Debian BTS. I'm volunteering for being a mentor for such a project. I've
On to, 2007-03-15 at 15:06 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
I (continue to) object to the notion of web-based submission of bugs to
Debian. Do you really think that someone who can't maneuver reportbug is
capable of submitting a useful bug report?
A GUI version of reportbug would be nice, though.
On 3/16/07, Lars Wirzenius [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On to, 2007-03-15 at 15:06 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
I (continue to) object to the notion of web-based submission of bugs to
Debian. Do you really think that someone who can't maneuver reportbug
is
capable of submitting a useful bug
Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I (continue to) object to the notion of web-based submission of bugs to
Debian. Do you really think that someone who can't maneuver reportbug is
capable of submitting a useful bug report?
I don't think this is about abilities. Do you think anyone who
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 04:10:10AM +0530, Shobhit Jindal wrote:
On 3/16/07, Lars Wirzenius [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On to, 2007-03-15 at 15:06 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
I (continue to) object to the notion of web-based submission of bugs to
Debian. Do you really think that someone who
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 09:48:53AM +1100, Jan Michael C. Alonzo wrote:
Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I (continue to) object to the notion of web-based submission of bugs to
Debian. Do you really think that someone who can't maneuver reportbug is
capable of submitting a useful
Le jeudi 15 mars 2007 à 16:49 -0700, Steve Langasek a écrit :
HTTP doesn't give you a callback mechanism, so you need to be able to tie
the web submission back to an email address.
You want to avoid joe-jobbing, so you require registration in advance of
allowing bug submissions.
Now
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 04:49:36PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
Now you've reimplemented bugzilla, congratulations; and it's still inferior
to reportbug because the website can't automatically gather information
about the package status on your system when you submit a bug.
I think with
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 12:52:24AM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
This is true for the initial report. But you also gain something
bugzilla has and reportbug doesn't: you can crawl on the website, find
an interesting bug, and direclty add some comments.
I don't see how this is anything that
Le Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 03:06:33PM -0700, Steve Langasek a écrit :
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 07:28:11PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
Hi all,
I'm willing to present a Debian project proposal for the Google Summer
of Code [1] for implementing a web frontend for reporting bugs to the
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 09:13:19AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
Hi all,
There has been long thread on bug triaging recently. I think that a web
interface to the BTS could make the task easier for volunteers, since
exploring the bug space of a software (from the Debian package to the
On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
I'm willing to present a Debian project proposal for the Google
Summer of Code [1] for implementing a web frontend for reporting
bugs to the Debian BTS.
Any such frontend must not be worse than reportbug at actually
gathering information and
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 10:23:09PM +, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
On to, 2007-03-15 at 15:06 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
I (continue to) object to the notion of web-based submission of bugs to
Debian. Do you really think that someone who can't maneuver reportbug is
capable of submitting a
I (continue to) object to the notion of web-based submission of bugs to
Debian. Do you really think that someone who can't maneuver reportbug is
capable of submitting a useful bug report?
Hint, Steve: l10n...:-)
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On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 07:20:50AM +0100, Christian Perrier wrote:
I (continue to) object to the notion of web-based submission of bugs to
Debian. Do you really think that someone who can't maneuver reportbug is
capable of submitting a useful bug report?
Hint, Steve: l10n...:-)
Heh, I'm
Hint, Steve: l10n...:-)
Heh, I'm unhappy as it is with the practice of translators of submitting
full .po files instead of diffs. ;)
(getting OT)
Actually, I'm among the ppl who discourage the use of diff files for
PO files.
The various differences in formatting behaviour of the PO
On pe, 2007-03-16 at 13:03 +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 10:23:09PM +, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
A GUI version of reportbug would be nice, though. Having to open a terminal
and deal with clumsy line based user interfaces is not a hindrance, but
it is an obstacle, to
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