- From: Helder Magalhães <helder.magalhaes@gmail.com>
- Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2008 02:43:28 +0100
- To: Irene.Vatton@inria.fr
- Cc: www-amaya@w3.org, www-amaya-dev <www-amaya-dev@w3.org>
> A Bug Tracking Service is now available. I'm very happy that the Amaya team has decided to take all input from the community (regarding the setup of a bug tracker tool) into consideration. :-) > When you register a bug report please check you give following > information: > o The version number > o The category or component: Building, CSS, Editing, MathML, Misc, > Publishing, SVG, UI, XML > o The platform > o The bug severity > o A description of the bug: what part of the document is not correctly > display, what CSS selector is not correctly interpreted, etc. > o If possible an example we can use to reproduce the bug > o If possible the scenario Somehow related with the item "example we can use to reproduce": I'd like to highlight a generally simple and very helpful reduction tutorial [1] which may help clarifying the two last items in the list. It would be interesting that guidelines for reporting bugs (I particularly liked an interesting one [2]) were acknowledged to the community, maybe by placing a link in the bug report page of Amaya [3]. Finally, I'd just like to take this opportunity to highlight an important aspect about bug trackers and bug reporting in general: information and good sense are true helpers. If reporters aren't able to provide quality bug reports [2] (usually due to lack of information), then the bug tracker may be come unmanageable in the long run. For (somehow off-list but) interesting information on how bug trackers are not always as effective as expected, I particularly like the this particular post [4] and following debate between Gérard Talbot and Shelley Powers within the IEBlog [5] - which may help the Amaya development team to avoid some known caveats. ;-) > To list what bugs are already reported and what bugs are fixed: > http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/buglist.cgi?product=Amaya Can't wait to file a few minor issues I've been harvesting (who didn't deserve such bold attention as creating a new mailing list thread). ;-) Hope this helps, Helder Magalhães [1] http://webkit.org/quality/reduction.html [2] http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html [3] http://www.w3.org/Amaya/User/Bugs.html [4] http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2008/07/30/wanted-ie8-beta-testers.aspx#8793635 [5] http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/
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