[chaoscope] Re: How best to report bugs
- From: Chaoscope <chaoscope@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: chaoscope@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 04 Jul 2004 23:41:07 +0100
Hi Anton, hello all,
first of all, thanks for your previous post.
Chaoscope is still in the beginning.
I concur.
Lots of nice pictures are attached here, but this can cause mailbox overflow
unless one is a
G-mail subscriber. (Yahoo now gives 100MB free) but those on 5MB limit can soon
feal the pinch,
but that is not the point but just comenting an early mail on this list.
I'm sure Yahoo and Hotmail email accounts come with very clever options which
allow to filter emails (on subject, size, etc.) and send them directly to the
trashcan if your priority is to keep a functioning mail box. Images are
available in the archives, so they wouldn't be lost anyway.
Having played with eschopcoa (that is chaoscope in chaos)there are a few
niggles and bugs that I
have observed - How best to report these in a structured way that they really
get noted and not
lost within a list that will grow bigger and bigger.
Good point. There are a few things you must check before you report a bug :
1) Read the manual, what you think is a bug could be a feature, or an official
missing feature (i.e. view width and height combo boxes in the view palette).
2) Search the mailing-list archives for any previous mention of the bug. (link
in the signature below)
3) Find the shortest procedure to reproduce the bug.
4) Make a screen capture if relevant.
5) Send the lot, begin your subject line with a "[bug]" tag, followed by a short
description.
I'll send a confirmation back, and in case it's a nasty bug, it will be
mentioned on the web site Download page, until a new corrected release is made
available.
Version 0.2 beta-testing was done in April, you might want to have a look at the
archives to see how it went.
The same applies for a wish list.
I'm going to post a development update, 0.3 features list is pretty much closed
now.
What's good for the bug report is good for suggestions, I advise you to search
for the archives first to see if it's been mentioned before.
Thanks again for your support!
Happy 4th of July to American subscribers!
Regards,
Nicolas Desprez
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