Re: [website-dev] issue tracker: description of *Testproduct

Hi,

the name "*Testproduct" lead in the past to many issue which where meant 
to be real issues, maybe it'd be a better way to use a name like 
"TestIssueTracking" to make thing more clear to everybody,

Martin

Terrence Enger wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I recently wasted a developer's time by entering the same issue twice.
> Is this the right place to question the instructions that led me into
> that mistake?  Is there somewhere else I should go?
>
> The page "Enter issue" <http://www.openoffice.org/issues/enter_bug.cgi>
> says of component *Testproduct 
>
>         New to IssueTracker? Please select this component if you want to
>         learn how to submit and comment on issues. Do not use this
>         component for real issues.
>
> I took this as an invitation to experiment, and I used the opportunity
> to check that the way I was typing the problem description would
> preserve reasonably well the layout of the message box that I wanted to
> report.  This created issue 109177.  I liked the result, so promptly
> created issue 109179 against component Word processor.
>
> Now, I see that I have wasted the time of [email protected]
> to deal with 109177.  And he must have taken the time to run a query to
> find the duplication, because I did nothing to link the two.
>
> I do not know what *Testcomponent is, but it seems not to be for the way
> I used it.
>
> Thank you for your attention.
>
> Cheers,
> Terry.
>
>
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