Re: Reducing "You found a bug" reports

[Suhail Singh <suhailsingh247@gmail.com>]

Simon Tournier <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> writes:

> More than often, the issue is transient, hard if not impossible to
> reproduce and thus hard to analyze.  Even, when it happens for me,
> sometimes I say ok let try to collect some information for helping in
> debugging that but then just running again “guix pull” makes it pass.

Doesn't that suggest, that it may help to reword the below:

#+caption: <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/55066#0-lineno145>
#+begin_quote
  guix pull: error: You found a bug: the program '/gnu/store/mpfp9nrzifhp3r5s3bv05b8xal5aa44f-compute-guix-derivation'
  failed to compute the derivation for Guix (version: "e32cc011bbe899fda432906776702f74fa6b1450"; system: "x86_64-linux";
  host version: "eb34ff16cc9038880e87e1a58a93331fca37ad92"; pull-version: 1).
  Please report the COMPLETE output above by email to <bug-guix@gnu.org>.
#+end_quote

So that we encourage users to try a few times (perhaps possibly with
--fallback), and in case of repeat failures to then submit a bug report
to <bug-guix@gnu.org>.  What about something like:

#+begin_example
  guix pull: error: An error occurred: the program '/gnu/store/mpfp9nrzifhp3r5s3bv05b8xal5aa44f-compute-guix-derivation'
  failed to compute the derivation for Guix (version: "e32cc011bbe899fda432906776702f74fa6b1450"; system: "x86_64-linux";
  host version: "eb34ff16cc9038880e87e1a58a93331fca37ad92"; pull-version: 1).

  Please try running "guix pull" again.  In case of repeated failure,
  please try passing "--fallback" to "guix pull".  In case that still
  doesn't resolve the error, please report the COMPLETE output above by
  email to <bug-guix@gnu.org>.
#+end_example

I.e., perhaps the first step is simply to reword above so that we don't
recommend that users submit a bug report on their first (possibly
transient) failure.

-- 
Suhail