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Bug 92492 - corrections to the guided bug-reporting form
Summary: corrections to the guided bug-reporting form
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Infrastructure
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Bugzilla (show other bugs)
Hardware: All All
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Jeffrey Forman (RETIRED)
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Blocks: 92449
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Reported: 2005-05-13 06:11 UTC by Gregorio Guidi (RETIRED)
Modified: 2011-10-30 23:16 UTC (History)
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Description Gregorio Guidi (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-05-13 06:11:48 UTC
about the guided bug-reporting form:

1) please change the description of the "Blocker" severity from:

"This bug prevents you from testing or developing the software."

to something like

"This bug completely prevents you from using the Gentoo distribution."

The other severities may be changed as well, e.g.:
"Critical: The software crashes, hangs, or causes you to lose data" ->
"Critical: This bug harms the core functionality of a Gentoo system."

"Major: A major feature is broken" ->
"Major: This bug affects an important aspect of Gentoo."

2) At the beginning of the form, remove this sentence:
"Please note that all bugs should be submitted here first before being moved upstream."

It does not reflect how we currently work, usually we encourage reporting the bug directly upstream, _if_ the reporter is reasonably sure that the bug is not Gentoo-specific.

3) Last request: it could be useful to add something like this near the "Submit Bug Report" button:
"(may take some time, please click only once)"
Comment 1 Jeffrey Forman (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-05-16 14:01:17 UTC
Fixed in bugstest
Comment 2 Gregorio Guidi (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-05-17 05:11:57 UTC
jforman: could you take a look at the severity descriptions again, they didn't 
change. Thanks. 
Comment 3 Gregorio Guidi (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-05-27 07:04:47 UTC
Reopening, see previous comment. 
Comment 4 Jeffrey Forman (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-05-27 07:21:00 UTC
I never said I would take your exact recommendations. I took them into account
and modified them as I deemed most appropriate for the bug report form. 
Comment 5 Gregorio Guidi (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-05-27 07:38:04 UTC
Ok, it's just that we will keep getting compilation failures reported as 
blockers...