On 22 December 2010 16:41, Gary Martin <[email protected]> wrote: > Personally I find the posts very informative and useful, I try to reply and > open tickets if needed for activities I help maintain (or if I've seen an > annoying issue crop up before). I actually like reading the email prose, as > often it gives much more context and feeling than a dry 'your activity is > defective' ticket. The emails also often drift into the surrounding attempted > use case, and suggest other design niggles, frustrations, and > misunderstandings that might otherwise be missed. Of course tickets are great > and appreciated when you have a specific feature request, or reproducible > bug, but the email stage first seems like a good low barrier to actually > getting more reports.
The discussion is useful, and I'm by no means proposing that it be abolished in lieu of sterile bug reports. Perhaps at the end of each comment should be a link to the relevant bug report. Then the report can be updated as the discussion progresses. _______________________________________________ Testing mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/testing
