[maemo-community] Validity criteria for bugtrackers and bugtrackers links

[From: Valerio Valerio]

Hi,

On Mon, Mar 8, 2010 at 9:21 PM, Graham Cobb
<g+770 at cobb.uk.net<g%2B770 at cobb.uk.net>
> wrote:

> On Monday 08 March 2010 15:29:51 Valerio Valerio wrote:
> > since some developers aren't taking seriously the QA rules and there's a
> > lot of room for different interpretations in some cases, like the
> validity
> > of the bugtracker fields, the Testing Squad decided to write some
> > additional rules to clarify dubious situations:
> > http://wiki.maemo.org/Bugtracker
>
> I disagree with this rule:
>
> These bugtrackers link are considered NOT valid:
>
>    * General links that do not lead to a dedicated page (e.g.
> http://talk.maemo.org or https://bugs.maemo.org)
>
> There should not be restrictions on the type or location of a bugtracker to
> use.  Any URL at which you can provide the bug report information should be
> acceptable.  For example, in the GPE apps I point to the upstream
> bugtracker.
> There is no need to point to a page because this is all about GPE.  The
> user
> will probably want to search, they may know which GPE component they should
> report it against (e.g. one of the applets or libraries, not necessarily
> the
> component they actually installed) and, if not, they can choose the product
> itself when they enter the bug report and I will reassign it as necessary.
>
> Other upstreams may have completely different bugtrackers which work
> differently.
>
> I really don't even see any problem with just pointing to t.m.o or b.m.o.
>

What about www.google.com ? seems the same for me :).

That could work if that project has a product at bugzilla or a specific
thread at TMO(generaly they don't have), but don't you think it will be hard
to find ?
That will only leads to general confusion among the newcomers and a lot of
bugs filled in the wrong products at bugzilla.


Best regards,

-- 
Valério Valério

http://www.valeriovalerio.org



>
> By all means give advice that it MAY be helpful to provide a bugtracker
> link
> with a product name, and is particularly recommended when using b.m.o.
> And/or
> particularly for applications with large numbers of users.  But it is not a
> showstopper.  Leave it up to the developer.
>
> It is marginal as to whether a bugtracker should be required at all.  I
> think
> it should, because it is easy and extremely helpful to the user, but only
> if
> it is left up to the developer what form it takes.  If a developer wants to
> use something different from normal then that is fine.  All we should
> require
> is that they have had to explicitly do something.
>
> Graham
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