On 3/11/06, Vitaliy Margolen wine-devel@kievinfo.com wrote:
What? You mean having all the pastes in this bug: http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4131 adds to it's readability? This is just one bug that I could think of. Also note that the biggest paste by author has nothing to do with the bug itself.
Vitaliy
Yeah, that's bad, but so is this AppDB page: http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?versionId=1177
People seem to think that the AppDB comment sections are a good place to post logs. It made the page really long. So I put this as the first thing in the howto:
"Reporting Problems
If you encounter a problem, send your report to Wine-Users Mailing List or WineHQ Bugzilla. These places are much faster for getting help, and bugzilla is better for posting logs."
And it mostly seemed to work. And there are alot more new bug links now. But then they added the "testing" section and people use that too to report their problems and for pasting logs. I wish they would be brief in those and link to bug #'s instead.
And true it is the same that the logs aren't good in the bugzilla comments either. They should upload them seperate. I guess there are a lot of new people that haven't dealt with this system. The new note should help.
One of these days I'd really like to clean up the old comments on the AppDB page, but I don't want to scare anyone with mass deletions. It takes a long time to load on dialup.