[Mageia-dev] How will be the realese cycle?

Mon Oct 18 20:25:34 CEST 2010

Le 2010-10-18 04:26, Wolfgang Bornath a écrit :
+> 2010/10/18 Marc Paré<marc at marcpare.com>:
+>>
+>> Thanks Michael for the note. This is why I am in favour of streamlining the
+>> reporting of bugs from the user side and not the dev. Devs should always
+>> count on seeing bugs reported on bugzilla and nothing more. However, on the
+>> user side, to keep the reporting of bug flow from breaking down, I suggest a
+>> two tier format that I discussed earlier. Maybe have a look at this and
+>> comment?
+>>
+>> I imagine that the Mageia devs are interested in hearing of bugs from as
+>> many sources as possible regardless of user experience.
+>
+> Here's the place where I may bring back to attention the proposed
+> system of helpers in the user forums. People who help unexperienced
+> users to write bug reports and will also help them along if the devs
+> ask questions during the lifetime of that bug in bugzilla. A user who
+> has done this once (ideally from the start of a bug until its end)
+> will be eager to do it again when he stumbles across another bug. He
+> will also be eager to "teach" his new knowledge to other users. This
+> way we will get a larger community of "bug reporters" than by any
+> documents.
+>
+> There must not be  a fixed "Bug Friends" group, this "mentoring" can
+> be done by all experienced users.
+>
+
+Actually, the process that you describe is exactly what mentoring is all 
+about. I would be in favour of both processes.
+
+BTW ... someone mentioned that we should have a different thread for 
+this. Should we do this? Maybe call it "Report Bug Process" ?
+
+Marc
+
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