[Bugzilla] Add note to not paste logs and back traces.

[Tony Lambregts]

James Trotter wrote:
> 
> 
> On 3/12/06, *Jesse Allen* <the3dfxdude at gmail.com 
> <mailto:the3dfxdude at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> 
>>     Yeah, that's bad, but so is this AppDB page:
>>     http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?versionId=1177
>> 
>>     People seem to think that the AppDB comment sections are a good place
>>     to post logs.  It made the page really long.  So I put this as the
>>     first thing in the howto:
>> 
>>     "Reporting Problems
>> 
>>     If you encounter a problem, send your report to Wine-Users Mailing
>>     List or WineHQ Bugzilla. These places are much faster for getting
>>     help, and bugzilla is better for posting logs."
>> 
>>     And it mostly seemed to work.  And there are alot more new bug links
>>     now.  But then they added the "testing" section and people use that
>>     too to report their problems and for pasting logs.  I wish they would
>>     be brief in those and link to bug #'s instead.
>> 
>>     And true it is the same that the logs aren't good in the bugzilla
>>     comments either.  They should upload them seperate.  I guess there are
>>     a lot of new people that haven't dealt with this system.  The new note
>>     should help.
>> 
>>     One of these days I'd really like to clean up the old comments on the
>>     AppDB page, but I don't want to scare anyone with mass deletions.  It
>>     takes a long time to load on dialup.
> 
> I'm curious what the policy about cleaning up comments on the appdb is. If a 
> user posts about a comment about some problem with the application, and the 
> problem later is fixed, should the comment be removed?

Yes these can be deleted

> What about bug links? Should they be removed once the bug is fixed or closed?
> 
No at least for now. There probably should be an option to hide resolved and
closed bugs though.
> 
> The maintainer's guidelines page says: "If a comment is useless or is not 
> true anymore, you can safely delete it." Though, if you look at AppDB entries
>  like the one above, this doesn't seem to happen. Perhaps the maintainer's 
> guidelines could be a bit more specific?

That seems pretty straight for ward to me. Could you clarify what you mean.

> Also, the guidelines don't even mention bug links.
> 
Well the guideline is not to delete bug links unless they never did apply to the 
application version. (If the bug link was submitted in error then delete it)

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Tony Lambregts