Bug#910541: diffoscope: filing bugs on diffoscope is cumbersome for non-Debian contributors

[Marek Marczykowski-Górecki]

On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 03:51:49PM +0200, Mattia Rizzolo wrote:
> Tryin to consider myself an active contributor to diffoscope, I'd hate
> to have two different places to check for bugs.  That probably goes for
> all the other project that are non debian specific though (I remember
> reading about people advocating for upstream developers to check their
> downstream bug trackers).

Personally I find BTS usage "a little" cumbersome for newcomers. I think
I created under 10 bugs there and almost every time I had some troubles.
Like "why doesn't it like Package: put where I put it", or "how to set
upstream bug url". This are all trivial things if you're used to, but
lack clear guidance for others. Web based bug trackers are nice, because
they show some kind of template automatically. Either as a set of
combo boxes ("choose package", "choose version", ...), or pre-filled
template for a bug report. In this regard, the link Mattia added helps a
lot.

> That said, I think this bug report lacks a lot from input by non-Debian
> contributors.  I'm here explicitly CCing the only two that wrote in the
> bug, probably not even knowing tha they are not automatically subscribed
> to the bug report…

Oh, that's indeed the case. I was assuming I'm automatically subscribed,
because that's what every other bug tracker does (github, bugzilla,
gitlab, jira, ...). And since there is no "subscribe me" checkbox, I didn't
noticed and still don't know how to subscribe myself...

> I'd like to hear what potential bug reporters would like to see, rather
> than us trying to guess what they might think; therefore, I believe this
> bug should (well, could) be deferred to in-person discussion in Paris.

+1

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Best Regards,
Marek Marczykowski-Górecki
Invisible Things Lab
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
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