Bug Reporting Guidelines (PLEASE READ!!!)

lamer · n00b Joined: 16 May 2002 Posts: 16 Location: St. Paul, Mn

We've been getting some really horrendous bug reports on bugs.gentoo.org. You as users are the most important QA resource we have. You can ensure the stability and robustness of Gentoo Linux by taking your time and giving us accurate, helpful bug reports. One person submitted a bug for logrotate because it had a DEPEND on "mailx" because he incorrectly assumed that it was a "GUI Mailer" had the individual ran "emerge search" he'd have seen that it is in fact /bin/mail. Here is a list of minimum requirements for a bug submission.

Summary of problem
System Information
Package Version
Output of commands that failed
List of steps taken to cause the failure

Lastly read http://bugzilla.gnome.org/bug-HOWTO.html for a good guide for submitting useful bug reports.

klieber · Posted: Sun Jun 23, 2002 4:21 pm Post subject:

Changing title to make it a bit more prominent. Also making post sticky.

--kurt
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fghellar · Posted: Sun Jun 23, 2002 10:28 pm Post subject:

A very good reference is bug writing guidelines at mozilla.org.
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pjp · Administrator Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20067

For purposes of Gentoo bugs, what qualifies as system information?
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