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Re: [PATCH 0/2] improve bugreports

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Rubén Justo <rjusto@gmail.com>
Date
Apr 1, 2024, 19:27 UTC
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On Sun, Mar 31, 2024 at 11:09:02PM -0400, Eric Sunshine wrote:
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> On Sun, Mar 31, 2024 at 3:04 AM Rubén Justo <rjusto@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sat, Mar 23, 2024 at 06:32:35PM +0100, Rubén Justo wrote:
> > > Let's try to improve the readability of the bug reports we receive.
> >
> > This series received no response.  One option may be because it went
> > unnoticed, another because it may not add value.  I'm going to give it
> > another try and I'll quietly :-) take silence as confirmation of the
> > second option.
> >
> > I'll try to increase the chances of getting a "looks good" by CC'ing
> > some folks involved in the bugreport tool.
> 
> For what it's worth, when I read the cover letter of this series, I
> thought it was going to clean up the list of questions to eliminate
> redundancy. In particular, of the three questions:
> 
>    What did you expect to happen?
>    What happened instead?
>    What's different between what you expected
>         and what actually happened?
> 
> the final one seems to repeat what the first two ask, and it is common
> when answering the third question for people to simply repeat what was
> said in response to an earlier question.

Certainly, a diagnostic questionnaire can always be improved. Unfortunately I do not have a better wording to offer here to reduce that sense of repetition.

Thanks for your response.
Previous: Junio C Hamano
Message 9 of 9 in “improve bugreports”
  1. 0/2 improve bugreportsRubén Justo, Mar 23, 2024
  2. 1/2 bugreport: add a new line between questionsRubén Justo, Mar 23, 2024
  3. 2/2 bugreport: add a mark to each proposed questionsRubén Justo, Mar 23, 2024
  4. Kristoffer HaugsbakkApr 1, 2024
  5. Rubén JustoApr 1, 2024
  6. Rubén JustoMar 31, 2024
  7. Eric SunshineApr 1, 2024
  8. Junio C HamanoApr 1, 2024
  9. Rubén JustoApr 1, 2024

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