Firefox/Gnome bug with System->Preferences->Preferred Applications

[Matthew East]

On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 11:53 -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 16:33 +0100, Matthew East wrote:
> > They are good for discussion of single bugs :) If you want to discuss
> > a large number of bugs, which perhaps show some kind of trend, then
> > the development list sounds appropriate.
> 
> Nope, if you discuss bugs on the devel list you will be told to take a
> hike.

If you discuss a single bug on the devel list which is suitable for
discussion on the bugtracker, you will be told (nicely, I hope) to take
a hike. If you wish to discuss a large number of bugs which are due to
some kind of trend and you wish to comment on development process as a
whole, the development list is probably appropriate, in my view.

> > If you want to know if there is a
> > way to work around a problem, I'd try the -users list.
> 
> I was thinking of questions that you might want to ask to narrow down
> the problem before reporting a bug, like "did Firefox recently start
> leaking tons of memory for anyone?", "is anyone else's Evolution locking
> up when composing messages", etc.

These are not questions you might want to ask to narrow something down,
what you are doing with those questions is asking if other people can
reproduce the bug. That is something which is wholly covered by the
"report bug -> someone else sees problem, goes to bug tracker, confirms
bug" workflow, I think.

But yeah, I would ask those questions on -users, definitely.

Questions you might ask to narrow down problems before reporting might
be, "I have problem X. What package is this a problem with? What
information should I include with my bug report?"

Again, I would tend to ask those on -users. But you shouldn't be told to
take a hike if you ask such questions on -devel, you should get an
answer. Same in IRC.

Matt
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