Re: [PATCH 0/2] improve bugreports

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Apr 1, 2024, 09:29 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqq5xx1e8hx.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <CAPig+cRFqddMqTxCENnknv3Agcq3_bxGmB1sQTmJNb=xNYg1aw@mail.gmail.com>

Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com> writes:

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> 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.

The third one may need to be rephrased, but I think it should still be there. The intent is to make the reporter realize how unhelpful their answers are when they answer the first two questions with

 - I expected it to work correctly
 - It did not work correctly

They hopefully would realize that "work correctly" needs to be elaborated in order to answer the third question in a useful way. If the first two questions have been answered in a usable way, the third one is often redundant.