Hi, I feel there is a mismatch between the policies for the Zope collectors and the text on the entry page of these collectors, which seems to frustrate both users and the developers caring about the collectors.
The start page of the zope collectors at http://www.zope.org/Collectors/ just contains a few general sentences, mostly saying that submitters are welcome, and state some rather vague requirements on the bugs. At least for the Zope collector it is not the case that just all submitters are welcome; instead there seems to be a strict policy about submissions requiring: - patches must come with unit test proving the patch fixes some issue - patches for new features must apply to the trunk - bug reports should at least include the traceback - only supported combinations of python/zope are supported, and issues should be reproduceable with a stock Zope installation without add-ons ... (at least I think these are some of the requirements). All users violating the policy are told about their mistake very strictly by Andreas Jung then. However, none of these requirements are mentioned on the start page for the collector. Other projects do have such requirements stated in big letters on their bug trackers front page; these might even include to ask first on the relevant mailing list before reporting a bug. I think its better to tell people in advance that to have to tell them later that their bug report does not meet the checklist. Does anyone share my point of view the collector overview page should state the requirements explicitely? If yes, is there any interest that I try to formulate some alternative text for the front page (which would need to be polished by some native speaker)? Oh, and has anyone pointers to the real collector policies? Cheers, Clemens P.S. apologies if I am on the wrong list - if so, has anyone pointers about a better place to post this? _______________________________________________ Zope-web maillist - Zope-web@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-web