Re: [PATCH 0/2] improve bugreports

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On Sun, Mar 31, 2024 at 11:09:02PM -0400, Eric Sunshine wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 31, 2024 at 3:04 AM Rubén Justo <rjusto@xxxxxxxxx> 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.




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