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[Scott Kitterman]

On Sat, 17 May 2008 17:46:47 +0200 Reinhard Tartler <siretart at ubuntu.com> 
wrote:
>Scott Kitterman <ubuntu at kitterman.com> writes:
>
>> Personally I'd find a file a bug first rule very demotivating.  One more 
rule 
>> to convince me to spend my time on other things.
>
>Could you please elaborate here? What specifically is the annoying part
>of filing a bug? Possible reasons I can image:
>
> a) Too cumbersomely
> b) The round-trip time is too high that make duplicate work more likely
> c) the use of lp restricts possible contributors
> d) The complete list of outstanding merges must be easily visible.
>
>
>For a), I image that we can craft scripts a la 'request-sync.py'.

Yes, but the (lp: #nnnnnn) is not scriptable.  It needs the mail back from 
LP to get the number.  Personally, my merge workflow involves testing with 
exactly what I intend to upload.  So even with such a script it's send the 
mail, wait aroung for a reply, copy/paste in the bug number, try to remeber 
what points exactly I want to look for when I test, and move on.