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From: Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [External] : Re: unique syntax for reporting (submitting bugs)
Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2021 18:07:55 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878ryj912c.fsf@mat.ucm.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: SJ0PR10MB54886CB03B8D5F5B360C2E75F3819@SJ0PR10MB5488.namprd10.prod.outlook.com

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>>> "DA" == Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:

>> There are two issues here.
>> 1. Have a common syntax for sending bug reports, for example
>> - package-report-bug or
>> - package-submit-bug-report
>> 2. The other, more complex issue, is that within GNU emacs the
>> command emacs-report-bug would send an appropriate bug report
>> based on the mayor mode used when calling the bug-report
>> function

> I don't see the lack of uniqueness as a real problem.
> Can you give an example/scenario that points out what
> problems might arise from it?  I'm not saying there
> are none; I just can't see them yet.


> What you show there are descriptions of solutions.
> It's the problems they're intended to fix that I have
> trouble imagining (so far).

May it is just me. When I want to send a bug report, for some
package/library the first thing I do is running the apropos-command and
searching the word bug, to find out the specific syntax. As I said there
is, at least

    - libname-report-bug

    - libname-submit-bug-report

    - libname-send-bug-report (your example)

So that is confusing I say. If one convention would be chosen, like in 
«one ring to rule them all» I think it would simplify things a bit. 
At least that is my experience over the years

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  reply	other threads:[~2021-10-23 16:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-10-23  7:31 unique syntax for reporting (submitting bugs) Uwe Brauer
2021-10-23  7:40 ` Po Lu
2021-10-23 12:20   ` Uwe Brauer
2021-10-23 12:40     ` Po Lu
2021-10-23 16:04       ` Uwe Brauer
2021-10-23 15:50     ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-10-23 16:07       ` Uwe Brauer [this message]
2021-10-23 16:43         ` Uwe Brauer
2021-10-23 16:44         ` Drew Adams
2021-10-23  8:16 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-23  8:36   ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-23  9:48     ` Stefan Kangas

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