Re: Work on the Bug Reporting System (00/08/04)

On the whole, great. A few comments: >The Life Cycle of a Bug >------------------------ >Reported > * The process begins when a user submits a bug report > -- the process begins when the user runs some code and something that he did not expect happens. This could be because of a real live bug, or it could be because the User did not read the docs correctly, or something was not documented. Maybe we should have some way, in the latter cases, of directly feeding the documentation with updates to cover that Users 'bug'. Feature requests -- are we going to filter out feature requests? Send them off to collecting point? >Regression Test > * Once the fix is in place, a regression test should be in place to catch >re-occurences of the bug in the future. > As Stanislav mentioned, many bugs do not fit into a test framework. The test framework will mainly work for generic, non-platform dependent bugs. (2 semicolons in a row crash the parser... sort of stuff). Possibly as time goes on, there will be people who have there own test set up and can run their own scripts (PSQL, or Adabas or whatever). my ol' .02 EU... -- jalal --