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Re: What is wrong with Bugzilla? [Was: Re: GCC and Floating-Point]
scott.ladd@coyotegulch.com (Scott Robert Ladd) wrote on 28.05.05 in <4298A5B0.1020304@coyotegulch.com>:
> Uros Bizjak wrote:
> > At this point, I wonder what is wrong with Bugzilla, that those
> > programmers don't fill a proper bug report.
>
> In my experience, people don't file Bugzilla reports because it feels
> impersonal and unresponsive. The form is not very user-friendly (as in
> friendly to users of GCC, not its developers.)
This is pretty much incomprehensible to me (NOT a gcc developer, but a gcc
user - that is, a programmer).
"Feels impersonal"? And this is supposed to be a *problem* with a bug
reporting system?!
We're not talking about a trouble ticket system for a matchmaking agency
here, are we? I certainly don't expect technology in general to feel
personal. And in fact I thought the problem with the mailing lists *was*
that they got too personal.
Unresponsive? I thought the whole point was to avoid responses (in the
mailing list)?
Sorry, but this really does not make any sense to me.
As for the user friendlyness of the forms, well, all I can say is that
they're certainly not optimal, but they're at least in the upper 30% of
forms in general one encounters on the web - and that includes non-
technical stuff. In fact, forms for non-technical stuff are usually
especially bad - presumably because the authors have less understanding of
the technology involved.
MfG Kai