Re: [gentoo-dev] Bugs Bugs Bugs & Unstablity

[Vitaly Kushneriuk <vitaly_kushneriuk@yahoo.com>]

On Wed, 2002-07-24 at 01:53, Doug Goldstein wrote:
> All I ever hear or read about is people complaining about bugs or 
> stability issues or an ebuild problem. Granted I'm not complaining about 
> this, this is good... we need to know this. But there is one thing 
> missing... I go to http://bugs.gentoo.org and sort through the bugs and 
> there are hardly any bug reports for the problems people say.
> 
> Here's a couple things I'd like to see our users do as far as bugs
> 1) Fill out bug reports @ http://bugs.gentoo.org
> 2) Provide us with all the necessary details... for example... if you 
> just tell me that libfoo's latest ebuild doesn't compile for you. That 
> is definetly not enough detail. Provide the FULL version including our 
> ebuild revision, such as libfoo-1.0.1-r1.ebuild is what we'd like to see.
> 3) You NEED to tell us which version compiler you are using.
> 4) You need to tell us your USE flags and your CFLAGS
> 5) Provide us with a copy and paste of the exact error message.
> 6) Any other data you feel might be revelant.
> 
> If you do all that more bugs will be fixed and they will hopefully be 
> fixed faster.
> 
> And if the person who sent me the patch against the latest version of 
> pcmcia-cs over IRC in a /query while I was gone is here.... please fill 
> out a bug report and lemme know what it fixes and include it. My battery 
> on the laptop ran out while I was gone.
> 
> In conclusion, you need to submit your bugs and concerns in a reliable 
> fashion so that they can be properly addressed... the only way to do 
> that is to fill out a bug report.
> 
> -- 
> Doug Goldstein
> Developer (Laptops, WiFi, GCC-3.1)
> Gentoo Linux                                http://www.gentoo.org/~cardoe/

Writing  report wizard that will collect needed information and submit
it to the bugzilla might help ;-).