Re: Modifications to bug system

At 01:04 AM 7/8/00 +0200, you wrote: >> We don't actually know how many fewer bug reports we would have by >> increasing the difficulty of posting a report. > >I did not say it should be generally harder, it should be harder to >enter bogus reports. The user should be guided more strictly. I agree that the interface for reporting bugs should be improved. >> As Richard pointed out, Windows users are already reluctant to post bug >> reports - would this be yet another barrier for them? > > They´re reluctant on posting accurate ones. From personal experience, I would attribute the quality of Windows users bug reports to inexperience and little else. :) >PHP could generate a clickable link which automatically points to bug >report form, include build data, Os data and module data. > ><A >HREF="http://bugs.php.net/autoreport.php?build=20000803&os=win2000&modules= wddx%20bcmath">Please >click this link to report a bug</A> >But I´m not sure how to implement this and how to catch important >errors, a link like that on every error and every user will be invited >to spam our database... -- Stupid Idea Alert -- I agree that getting flooded with potentially inaccurate bug reports could be a bad thing. However, it would certainly give us data on what people are having trouble with. However, this is probably beyond the scope of what we want to do for now... >The better solution: >We could ship an automatically generated .html file with every php >binary distribution which includes data like OS and version, tarballs >could include a general form with OS selection. I agree - this is a more solid idea. Ciao, - Zak