Re: [boost] Running the gauntlet to report bugs

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-04-02 15:36:23

I agree very much with both Kevin and Dave, but I'm drowning in 
administrative work.  Dave, why don't you set up the SourceForge bug 
tracker, and write a prototype web page for the boost site telling users 
what to do (or with a form to fill out.  The web site supports the 
FrontPage mechanism to automatically email a form to whoever you want.  If 
you write the page, and get SourceForge set up, I'll make the FrontPage 
form mailer work.  If SourceForge works that way.)

We can try it out just among Boost members, and then loose it on the public 
if it seems to be effective.

--Beman

At 12:18 PM 3/28/2001, David Abrahams wrote:

 >Agreed. Maybe we should start using the bug tracker at SourceForge. It
 >works pretty well (speaking as a bug reporter, not a developer), IMO.
 >
 >-Dave
 >----- Original Message -----
 >From: "Kevin S. Van Horn" <kevin_vanhorn_at_[hidden]>
 >To: <boost_at_[hidden]>
 >Sent: Tuesday, March 27, 2001 4:54 PM
 >Subject: [boost] Running the gauntlet to report bugs
 >
 >
 >> I suspect that many bugs in the Boost libraries are not getting 
reported
 >> because the process of reporting bugs is too involved.  If you want to
 >get
 >> reports on all problems users find, you need to make it trivially easy
 >> for busy end-users to report bugs.  Unfortunately, at present you have 
to
 >> go through a fairly involved process of first getting a user name and
 >> password for Yahoo Groups, subscribing to the boost mailing list, 
waiting
 >> for a response, and then verifying your information.  It would be 
better
 >> to have a highly-visible (on the main web page), easy-to-find link to a
 >> web page or email address that anyone could use without having to go
 >> through any registration process.
 >>
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