Archive for August, 2007

Impolite bug reports

Sunday, August 19th, 2007

Joey Hess suggests that using the word “stupid” or using imperatives like “fix it” in bug reports is not a good way to get your bugs looked at. However Gunnar Wolf gives a recent example of an aggressive bug report that made him care.

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Bug Triage and Forward Tool for the Debian BTS

Sunday, August 19th, 2007

Gustavo R. Montesino has released his Google Summer of Code project bug-triage, which according to the release announcement has these features:

  • Added integration to upstream BTSes
  • Added support to more advanced queries
  • Added support to followup to a bug
  • Allow selection of columns to show
  • Added sorting support
  • Allow to select the BTS access method to use (SOAP/BTS)

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