Re: Two forked copies of bug writing guidelines

Gervase Markham <[email protected]> Wed, 14 Mar 2007 11:07:14 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.documentation
Message-ID <[email protected]>
L. David Baron wrote:
> I just discovered we have two copies of the bug writing guidelines:
> 
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/page.cgi?id=bug-writing.html

This copy ships with Bugzilla...

> http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Bug_writing_guidelines

...and this is the Mozilla project copy.

So we plan to update the latter, and replace all links to the former 
with links to the latter.

> and different people have been making improvements on each copy.  We
> should probably try to merge these improvements (and make more).
> 
> (One of them still suggests putting stack traces and logs in the
> comments field, rather than in attachments!)
> 
> This is a pretty important document, and I think some of the
> problems in it lead to repeated problems in Bugzilla that could be
> easily avoided.

I'm going to do a revision cycle for this document. dbaron: could you 
expand on what you mean here? I'll roll your comments into the new version.

Same for anyone else - please comment here with suggestions.

Gerv