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List:       kde-community
Subject:    Re: Invent/gitlab, issues and bugzilla
From:       Boudewijn Rempt <boud () valdyas ! org>
Date:       2019-07-04 17:18:59
Message-ID: 4601734.BLO3jEsuqC () sebe
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On donderdag 4 juli 2019 19:02:10 CEST Nate Graham wrote:
> On 7/4/19 10:39 AM, Boudewijn Rempt wrote:
> > Is it really true that gitlab makes reporting bugs easier for our \
> > users? I.e., does it offer easier login, an easier way to add screen \
> > shots and screen recordings or crash logs?
> 
> In my experience, yes. Being able to use a single account for everything 
> is a big benefit

But is that also true for users? If someone uses a KDE application and \
wants to report a bug for the first time, which is easier? Making a \
bugzilla account, or making a KDE identity account and using that for \
gitlab?

> . And being able to add multiple images and files inline 
> via drag-and-drop is a huge improvement over Bugzilla IMO. Then again if 
> Bugzilla 6 offers this, that will remove one advantage of GitLab issues.

Yes... So I don't think that is all that urgent. 

> > Is it really true that gitlab makes it easier for our users to make \
> > reports of a better quality? Like, better wizards, forms, support for \
> > smarter templates, more ways to cross-check a bug report with other bug \
> > reports, or cross-check the internal consistency? Is it easier for a \
> > user reporting a bug on gitlab to tell us which OS, version of OS, \
> > version of the application they are using? 
> > Does gitlab offer convenience features for our users like replying by \
> > email? (I know that some people think email is on the way out, but in \
> > real life, everyone has email -- and if it were going out -- is there \
> > integration with instant messaging?) Does gitlab make it easier to be \
> > notified of events related to the issue?
> 
> I'm not sure about these.

Well, those are important questions :-)


> > We all know that gitlab has a rich text editor. This is modern, but how \
> > important is that, actually? And how important is it to have a rich \
> > text editor in our issue reporting system right now? Are we experience \
> > a decline in the number of user reports because more and more people \
> > don't want to use bugzilla? 
> 
> Anecdotally, yes. I very commonly hear users on social media write and 
> say things like "I don't file KDE bugs anymore because Bugzilla is 
> ancient and incomprehensible". Though to be fair, they also commonly say 
> that it's because we don't do a good enough job triaging bugs, or that 
> KDE developers are too mean and abrasive when dealing with users, so 
> take it with a grain of salt.


Given that I'm inundated with bug reports for Krita, I'll subscribe to that \
grain of salt -- I just don't believe that people who haven't got any KDE \
login anyway, for people who just use an application, experience a crash \
and then want to report a bug are and then arrive at bugs.kde.org decide to \
not report the bug because the they cannot login with the KDE identity they \
don't have yet. I don't believe that my users get confused even if they \
have a KDE Identity (for the forum, and KDE Identity is the biggest problem \
we have with the forum, before search, threading, email) -- most people who \
actually report bugs seem to accept this.

And just imagine being a non-technical user who has to find their to \
reporting a bug on a KDE project, who starts at \
https://invent.kde.org/public/ -- there's no help at all!



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