request to change appdb message
Louis Lenders
xerox_xerox2000 at yahoo.co.uk
Thu Jun 28 14:14:40 CDT 2007
Ben Hodgetts (Enverex <ben <at> atomnet.co.uk> writes:
>
> Me and Chris Morgan changed it to this because we were sick of people
> pasting pages and pages of terminal output into the What works or What
> doesn't work boxes of the test data which is NOT where it belongs. The
> information in test data should be written in plain English, not pastes
> of lots of (mostly useless) terminal output which just looks awful and
> isn't any use to most users of the AppDB.
>
> I agree with point 2 but the problem is most AppDB submitters just...
> too stupid to be able to use some sense or judgement about what they
> are asked to actually put in the test reports.
>
> What you'd rather change it to would make the previous situation much,
> much worse so under no circumstances should it be changed to that though.
>
> Ben
Then i would vote for a kind of extra field in which users can paste their
crash/debug output , but that field wouldn't get sent into the appdb. Something
like that should be possible i guess. Otherwise i fear in many cases i cannot
really judge if the test result lots are valid or not......
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