On 26/02/2006, at 0:50, "Sarah Reichelt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
<snip>
To digress slightly, I think the reason Rev appears to have so many
bugs is because it is so versatile. We all use Rev in different ways
to do widely different projects. I ignore some bugs because I never do
the things they refer to. Others find the same bugs to be project
blockers. Then again, some people use Rev in a way that the
development team never imagined. That's great, but it means they will
be the first to strike bugs in those areas. By comparison, testing a
single-use application like a word-processor should be simple, but
they still crash :-)
Very true. Rev is a complex application. The productive efficiency of
writing it in itself, as it were, should not fool anyone into
believing otherwise.
I wonder is the Rev team doing itself a disservice by letting all Rev
users access the bug reports? While most people seem to value the
chance to point out problems and influence future versions, some
people regard a public bug list as an admission of failure. Maybe it
would be better to restrict bugzilla to members of the improve-rev
list or make it by invitation only.
Perhaps rather than restricting it by fiat, RR could make access to
the bug list voluntary, just as it allows switching on access to this
list or doing so in digest or e-mail form. If you "sign up" then you
also receive notifications of changes to the bug list [optionally
Selected or All], the intention being to keep you actively involved
while you continue your interest but shutting the list off from
casual access. Sign-up would also be a moderated event. Thus, engage
those who are interested (and allow them more votes) with full
information available, still open in principle to anyone.
Meanwhile, Rev could also provide a "Problem report" option under the
Help menu where you did not have access directly to the bug list but
had the opportunity to enter a problem, rate it on its own (with
reasons), and have some lookup of related problems (based on selected
category or on key terms) so that the user could also say their
problem is the same as or like or unlike others which from their
terms appear to be related. Thus, serious simplification with
information concealment while still allowing free report.
My general idea is to retain for all the ability to report to the
real list even if that list remains behind the scenes, allow the
simplest and easiest access for anyone to do so, and to engage more
effectively by interaction the users motivated to provide comparative
voting rather than one-off voting. Give me some critique and I will
try making an enhancement proposal.
These are speculative thoughts on my part.
Just a few random thoughts,
Sarah
regards
David
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