strawpoll: should apport-collect add a comment or change description?

Matt Zimmerman mdz at ubuntu.com
Thu Mar 26 11:42:55 GMT 2009


On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 11:26:13AM +0100, Martin Pitt wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> apport-collect was introduced some weeks ago [1] to help bug triagers
> and reporters with data collection.
> 
> Right now it adds the "short text" part of the data to a new comment.
> It has been suggested to append them to the description instead,
> similar to bugs which were originally filed with apport.
> 
> Would you prefer keeping the current "new comment" approach, which
> results in cleaner bug emails but harder to find bug comments on the
> web UI, or apport-collect modifying the description, which results in
> harder to read bug mail, but cleaner web UI presentation?

What about the case where the person running apport-collect is not the
original reporter?

-- 
 - mdz



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