From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 13141@debbugs.gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: bug#13141: please review bug #13141
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2013 10:50:03 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130120105003.GA3091__13678.0495908626$1358679452$gmane$org@acm.acm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ED6808FFB4C84116B3267774EC79431F@us.oracle.com>
Good Morning, Drew!
On Sat, Jan 19, 2013 at 03:59:45PM -0800, Drew Adams wrote:
> > > The patch is straightforward. Please reconsider it.
> > > Why not let users set the behavior they want for this?
> > I have to side with Glenn here. We need to make Bug
> > reporters' jobs as simple as possible.
> Why not give the individual bug reporters a say in what they think is simple?
> Your idea of making their life easier might not be their idea.
My model of bug reporter, right now, is somebody considering submitting
their very first Emacs bug report
> Why does giving other users a choice bother you?
> The default behavior would be the same as now.
I've not seen the patch, but it is surely either a set of configuration
settings or a sequence of questions to be answered each time a new bug
report is done. The former doesn't seem useful, since the useful info to
include will vary by bug report, not by bug submitter. The latter would
be a burden on the bug reporter, and surely could come to be an
annoyance.
> > Sadly, there is a tendency for things which one _can_
> > configure to become things that one _must_ configure -
> I don't recognize any such tendency. Give one example.
Er, CC Mode.
> > we know all about this in Emacs
> Well I don't know about it. I've never seen the addition of a user option, with
> no change to the default behavior, require any user to configure that option.
That's a narrower case than I meant, I was talking more generally. We
all have .emacses and I should think they are mostly biggish files. I
would think there are few Emacs users without .emacses, if for nothing
more than customize-* settings.
> That's logically impossible.
> If you do nothing then there is no change in behavior. If you are unaware of
> the option then your life is as simple as before. If you are aware of it and IF
> you want to take advantage of it, then you might even make life simpler for
> yourself than before - but that's your choice.
> > - which would be most unfriendly for novice bug reporters.
> What would? Giving a choice to any user who wants it?
To give somebody a choice is to inflict responsibility on her for
choosing.
> > Let's keep this as simple as possible.
> Let's give _users_ the choice. Let's let them decide what is "as simple as
> possible" for themselves, individually.
I don't think users having this choice would be helpful.
> > > http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=13141#43
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-20 10:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-19 23:10 please review bug #13141 Drew Adams
2013-01-19 23:20 ` Alan Mackenzie
2013-01-19 23:59 ` bug#13141: " Drew Adams
2013-01-19 23:59 ` Drew Adams
2013-01-20 0:12 ` bug#13141: " Xue Fuqiao
2013-01-20 0:12 ` Xue Fuqiao
2013-01-20 7:16 ` bug#13141: " Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-01-20 7:16 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-01-20 10:33 ` Xue Fuqiao
2013-01-20 10:33 ` bug#13141: " Xue Fuqiao
2013-01-20 17:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-20 17:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-01-20 18:41 ` bug#13141: " Richard Stallman
2013-01-20 21:21 ` Drew Adams
2013-01-21 1:03 ` bug#13141: " Dmitry Gutov
2013-01-21 1:03 ` Dmitry Gutov
2013-01-21 3:02 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-01-21 3:26 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-01-21 2:39 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-01-21 2:39 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-01-20 10:50 ` Alan Mackenzie [this message]
2013-01-20 10:50 ` Alan Mackenzie
2013-01-20 12:02 ` bug#13141: " Xue Fuqiao
2013-01-20 12:02 ` Xue Fuqiao
2013-01-20 20:27 ` Glenn Morris
2013-01-21 2:52 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-01-20 17:40 ` bug#13141: " Drew Adams
2013-01-20 17:40 ` Drew Adams
2013-01-21 4:24 ` Drew Adams
2013-01-21 4:24 ` bug#13141: " Drew Adams
2013-01-19 23:20 ` Alan Mackenzie
2013-01-19 23:21 ` Drew Adams
2013-01-19 23:21 ` Drew Adams
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-12-11 16:00 bug#13141: 24.3.50; Be able to customize the info included by default for `report-emacs-bug' Drew Adams
2013-01-19 23:10 ` bug#13141: please review bug #13141 Drew Adams
2013-01-20 0:35 ` Dmitry Gutov
2013-01-20 0:35 ` Dmitry Gutov
2013-01-20 0:54 ` Xue Fuqiao
2013-01-20 7:19 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-01-20 7:19 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-01-20 19:46 ` Harald Hanche-Olsen
2013-01-20 0:54 ` Xue Fuqiao
2013-01-20 1:03 ` Drew Adams
2013-01-20 1:03 ` Drew Adams
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