Hello, Problem: we now have a good, comfortable and encouraging way to report problems (the BTS), but no way to report successes, or to send cheers or kudos. This is unfair! :) Possible solution: add a "feedback" priority to the BTS which doesn't count as a bug at all. Then extend reportbug (possibly allowing it to be called with another name like "feedback" to give it a non-bug feeling) to report feedback on a given package. Some predefined forms of feedback could be set up, like "Thank you", "I like...", "I don't like...", "I'd like to tell a story...". A template message could be set up with useful questions (Flanagan[1] could inspire some), like: ----- Report a story message template -------------------- Hello <maintainer>, I have a story I'd like to share about <package>: [the story] [ if you want, please add what made you decide to report the feedback. Other interesting information you may want to add, if applicable, could be: - what led up to the situation - what you did (or did not do) that was especially effective or ineffective - what was the outcome or result of this action - why was this action effective, or what more effective action might have been expected ] Cheers, and keep up the good work! <signature> ---------------------------------------------------------- The BTS would then open some ticket which could lead to discussions about how good the package or the maintainer is, and be archived after a month or so. Less flames and more good vibes!! :) (other good vibes are due to come with the survey result, provided I can find some time to finish the processing (75% done so far) ) Ciao, Enrico [1] http://people.debian.org/~enrico/talks/2004linuxtag/zen-paper.html (one of the last sections) -- GPG key: 1024D/797EBFAB 2000-12-05 Enrico Zini <enrico@debian.org>
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