Re: Standardize/ have consistency in the layout of How_to_Debug_<component> wiki pages.

["Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" <johannbg@xxxxx>]

On 10/07/2009 09:01 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:

On Wed, 2009-10-07 at 15:40 -0400, Christopher Beland wrote:

Thanks to Johann for the idea and the template and everyone else for
running with the idea!

  

On Wed, 2009-10-07 at 17:18 +0000, "Jóhann B. Guðmundsson" wrote:
    

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/StackTraces 
        

Not targeted at low-knowledge audience 
      

Well, at least it's a starting point.  It might be best to put material
appropriate to novice users up front on that page (how to use Bug Buddy,
ABRT, etc.), while retaining advanced material farther down.
    

Yes, I think Chris' general idea is correct, but Johann is correct that
we don't current have sufficiently good centralized info on standard
gdb / strace use. I think the best approach would be to add the
necessary stuff to the StackTraces page and then link to that from each
'how to debug' page, as Chris suggests. Johann, do you think you could
do a draft of this, or could you, Chris?

  

We can create a gdb template with a link to https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/StackTraces encase end users wants to learn more on how to use gdb That template could contain the instructions of what I wrote I on the Thunderbird page so the novice enduser can produce gdb.txt file to attache to the report without the need to learn the whole internet before doing so.

It might be a good idea to put a link at the top of each "How to" page
back to this page, saying, "If you need to file a bug, here's general
information on how to do that.  I've added suggested language to the
template page.
        

I think that info should reside under <component>#Reporting_Problems not
on the "How to debug component" page.
      

A lot of components don't have homepages for which there is a Reporting
Problems section.  I'm not sure every component needs its own
homepage...

Perhaps you have a different scope in mind than what I am thinking?  So
far, we have both "Bug_info_<component>" and "How_to_debug_<component>"
pages.  I was assuming these were essentially the same thing by
different names.  
    

Yes, they are, AFAIK (Bug_info_<component> was the naming scheme I came
up with, How_to_debug_<component> was someone else's, but we were
designing the same kind of page).

  

Does not actually matter what we call these pages as long as they have consistent naming and consistent layout. 

One thing people need to ask themselves is.. Do we want to be able to point reporters to a reporting page for a given component which will contain all the information he needs to file a good report against the component or do we want him to follow million links and read through tons of man pages how to's upstream documents and more while being redirect through the whole internet and all of this just to file a single report.. 

I suggest that we have a single how to debug page for each component which we can point the reporter to like "Hey here's the page on how to report against the component you encountered a bug with. It contains all the necessary information on what you need to file good report against this component ( yes including the minimal gdb info as I wrote on the thunderbird page ) and a couple of links encase you want to learn more and avoid as much as possible redirecting them between pages in the wiki or somewhere else on the intertubes for that matter.. 

Asking users to follow link "A" to get to page "C" which will contain info on component "E"  always remind me on Twelve Tasks of Asterix (Les Douze travaux d'Astérix ) an animated feature film from 1976 where one of Asterix and Obelix tasks was to find permit A38 in the place that sends you mad! which was a mind-numbing multi-storey building founded on bureaucracy and staffed by clinically unhelpful people who direct all their clients to other similarly unhelpful people elsewhere in the building. 

Reporters I ask you this..

Do you want to run around in the wiki to find the info needed to file areport against an component or do you want to have all that info on a single page ?

JBG

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