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toofishes

Developer

From: Chicago, IL

Registered: 2006-06-06

Posts: 602

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Opening new bugs

Guys, it is great and all that you keep the developers on their toes with bug reports. But can we please search recently closed bugs before opening a new one, just to make sure it didn't already get fixed? This one just went out of control:
http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/10407
http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/10408
http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/10409
http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/10414

Yes, that is four bug reports for the exact same problem, and three of them with sequential IDs. Wow. I fixed this issue after getting the first report, uploaded a new package, and then three more reports come in.

http://bugs.archlinux.org/index.php?events[]=1&events[]=13&events[]=2&event_number=200&project=1&do=reports&submit= .
Link to all recent open, close, and reopen bug activity, BBCode is screwing it all up. I encourage you guys to bookmark this link and before you file a bug, take a quick look at recent activity.

chicha

Member

From: Nice (France)

Registered: 2007-04-20

Posts: 251

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Re: Opening new bugs

Hello,

I have just updated the Reporting Bug Guidelines to take into account your point.

Unfortunatly I did not succeeded to reproduce the URL in the wiki syntax so that people can click on the link in the documentation ... There are some characters such [ and ] in your URL which need to be translated.

I will see what I can do ...

EDIT : I found a work around and used recently closed bugs (-1 week) as a link : http://bugs.archlinux.org/index.php?str … om=-1+week
Feel free to customize this request in the documentation.

Last edited by chicha (2008-05-14 14:10:12)

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