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Re: [www/bugzilla] PR 36739 Proposal for clarifications in GCC Bugzilla
2009/8/9 Richard Guenther <richard.guenther@gmail.com>:
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> Well. ?I think the reporting form should have all fields that we require
> to be given. ?Which IMHO includes the target-triple. ?The triples are
This is news for me. The word "triplet" is never mentioned in
bugs.html, so it is strange that it is a requirement.
> only meaningless to users because there is not even description available
Where is the description available? How am I to found the target/host triplet?
> what it is! ?Likewise the known-to-work field is something we require if
> people report a regression.
I am not going to discuss what could be added. That is orthogonal to
my patch. Anyone is free to submit patches for adding things.
> Most of the time it is guesswork to find out the target and known-to-work
> fields from the initial description and just thinking people would fill
> out more required details from the generated bug page is moot - the
> information there doesn't become more meaningful to them.
No, it doesn't. Most users won't fill that info anyway. But in the
reporting page it becomes a waste of time and probably a stopping
energy.
Cheers,
Manuel.