Re: Rant about stupid bug reporters who can't be bothered to check for identical bugs before reporting their "new" one (Re: Bug#55602: gnu-standards: version 2.13-17 still has package overlap)
On Wed, Jan 19, 2000 at 11:14:08AM -0600, Chris Lawrence wrote:
> On Jan 19, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> > Not everyone has a good web connection. Do you prefer no bug report at all
> > because someone has not the money or time to dial in, start a browser and
> > check the web page before submitting a report?
>
> <Plug>reportbug will do this automatically (at least the "check the
> list of reports on the web page" parts. (You can disable this feature
> if you want, though.)</Plug>
Sure, but I still have to be online, right?
> > I think bug reports should never be discouraged for any reason.
>
> Agreed. Although, I will say that it can get messy dealing with
> multiple reports with different severities.
This is a problem with our BTS, and not with our submitters. Let's try
not to take the stick at the wrong end.
Thanks,
Marcus
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