[GNC-dev] Bugzilla Structure

[Derek Atkins]

Another option is to open bugs in each of the affected areas and reference
each other properly.

-derek


On Mon, August 27, 2018 1:30 pm, David T. via gnucash-devel wrote:
> Thanks, John; I found that about ten minutes after I sent it out!
>
> I do still think that a bug that crosses documents causes categorization
> issues. Adrien’s suggestion to add a General (I paraphrase) option might
> be useful.
>
> David
>
>> On Aug 27, 2018, at 11:09 AM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> On Aug 27, 2018, at 7:28 AM, David T. via gnucash-devel
>>> <gnucash-devel at gnucash.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I was just trying to track down the status of documentation bug 777893,
>>> and was stymied for a bit.
>>>
>>> A bit of history: I raised the bug to induce the addition of
>>> information about the SQL formats. Subsequently, I wrote a section for
>>> inclusion in the Guide, which was submitted 10 days ago as Pull Request
>>> #109.
>>>
>>> Today, I wanted to go add the PR # to the bug, and clicked my way to
>>> the bugzilla section for the Guide, only to not find the bug in
>>> question. Searching by bug number shows that the bug was entered under
>>> Help, rather than Guide. This situation points out that breaking the
>>> bugs out to this level of granularity can have negative effects: first,
>>> it forces a reporter to decide on the appropriate document for a bug,
>>> rather than focus on the problem in question; second a user looking for
>>> these bugs must discern the specific document to which a given bug was
>>> assigned in order to locate said bug; third, it causes difficulty if a
>>> given bug recommends changes to more than one piece of documentation,
>>> as this bug does—which doc does the bug get assigned to?
>>>
>>> While it may have seemed an advance to be able to structure our bugs to
>>> cover specific documents, I wonder at the choice at this point, and ask
>>> how difficult it would be either to change the structure itself, or
>>> find a way to allow users the option of seeing all Doc bugs in an
>>> aggregated screen?
>>
>> Yeah, don’t select a component when you do the search.
>>
>> Regards,
>> John Ralls
>>
>
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