Camaleón wrote: > Darac Marjal wrote: > > While a web-based interface may be nice, I think that where debian's bug > > reporting excels is in the 'reportbug' program. It's not just a program > > that sends emails to a single address, but it provides a good guide > > through the bug-reporting process, namely encouraging you to check that > > the bug is not already raised, checking that the version of the package > > you're reporting against isn't out of date and also collecting useful > > information for the developers (changed configuration, usually). > > Did you recently fill a bug on a bugzilla-alike bug tracking system? > > It does not only allows what you mention but it enhances the reporter > experience by allowing a higher level of configuration and customization > on almost any aspect, not only for the UI (bugs alerts are just great). > > > Some of that, a web based solution just can't do (as easily). > > Ha! Of course it can. (shock, surprise) You are saying that filling out a web form in a browser can run processes on the local host machine and send data to the internet? No it can't or it would be a severe security vulnerability. Please list any browser that allows this so that I can file the appropriately severe security bugs against them. > And bugzilla does not tend to crash when writing bug reports >:-) > > In fact, I usually avoid using "reportbug" because of its high > instability (it's annoying having to re-do a full report several > times...) and finally send the report "manually" -by e-mail- which is not > a task for newcomers neither encourages people to write bug reports ;-( I have never ever seen reportbug crash. Since it is just a python script I would think that an actual crash would be quite difficult. I am hoping you filed a bug report on reportbug crashing! :-) Bob
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