On Bugzilla and spreading FOSS, was: Where Fedora Went Wrong...

[Robin Laing]

M. Fioretti wrote:
> On Fri, May 18, 2007 04:25:42 AM +0530, Rahul Sundaram
> (sundaram at fedoraproject.org) wrote:
> 
>>> These instructions and their purpose are very clear to me, but for a
>>> real newbie they are absolutely obscure gibberish. 
>> That's not the audience it was written for.  The newbie solution is
>> better client side apps which Will Woods, QA lead for Fedora is
>> working on.
> 
> Sorry, you mean a better (newbie-wise) bug reporting client?
> 
> Thanks
> 	Marco
> 

I prefer to submit bugs.  As a technician, I know that information, 
accurate and detailed can be a time saver.  A tool like the old Mozilla 
bug tracer, a decent crash checker/tester would be a blessing for the 
developers.  A program that automatically submitted bug info to bugzilla.

A tool that will work easily in a wrapper from the desktop that maybe 
calls gdb and checks to see if the debugging package is installed with 
the option to install the package.

My biggest frustration with submitting a bug is trying to figure out 
some of the choices possible.  I feel sorry for someone, like my 
mother-in-law that has a problem knowing the difference between Internet 
Explorer and Firefox. :)

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