Bug 2931 (again)

[Francois Gouget]

On Thu, 12 May 2005, Mike Hearn wrote:

> On Wed, 11 May 2005 21:11:40 -0500, Dustin Navea wrote:
>> I was wondering if there was a better way to post them?  Ill keep that
>> in mind from now on.
>
> Well, I'm a bit dubious as to the value of posting bugs here anyway, we
> have wine-bugs for that. If it really does motivate people to work on them
> though then I guess it'd be OK.

I think if the bugs have been well diagnosed, which appears to be the 
case here, it can be useful to bring them to the attention of the 
developers: we all know that Wine developers tend to know about enough 
bugs already that they don't really scrub Bugzila trying to find one 
:-/.

But some more information directly in the email could be useful. I was 
not necessarily thinking about the last comment or the subject line but 
more:

  * a more catchy subject than 'bug 2931'
    (which is not to say that the bug number should not be mention in the 
subject)
  * small description of the bug
    (so that readers at least know if it's a DirectX issue or an ntdll 
one, a developer working on the former would probably not be interested 
in bugs related to the latter)
  * which application is affected
  * URL to the bug
  * changelog of the patch that was identified as causing the regression
  * quick analysis of the problem (if possible)

With that information a developper reading only the email will know 
whether it's worth digging deeper and actually looking at the bug report 
and patch.

Also I think it's good that someone checks and cleans up Bugzilla. 
Dustin, keep up the good work.


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