On Sun, 25 Apr 2021 at 23:14, home user mattisonw@comcast.net wrote:
one more question about filing bugs... After filling in the required fields and any optional fields that I think are helpful, is there something more I should do before clicking the submit button? The past few bugs I've submitted seem to just stay in the new state.
Some bugs are only triggered by a rare combination of events. A bug that isn't reproducible or doesn't leave evidence behind won't get attention until there are enough reports to define a pattern. It is important to highlight anything that could help other victims of the same bug recognize that from your report so patterns can be identified.
Such bugs are generally better handled upstream -- otherwise reports of the same problem are scattered across different bug databases and patterns aren't easy to recognize.