Re: svn 1.2 resoak?

Brian W. Fitzpatrick wrote:
>
> On Apr 29, 2005, at 9:48 AM, Michael Sweet wrote:
>
>> kfogel@collab.net wrote:
>>
>>> Luis Muniz <luis.muniz@b2boost.com> writes:
>>>
>>>> Yes, well people are not exactly encouraged to report a bug
>>>> twice... everywhere the policy says to read first the archive.
>>>
>>> That's a good point. If people are following that policy (even some
>>> of the time), then I shouldn't make assumptions about how many other
>>> people have encountered a bug, once someone has reported it.
>>
>>
>> Perhaps you could update the policy to advocate posting "me, too!"
>> messages to existing bug reports, so that you know how many people
>> have that particular issue?
>
>
> I'd be fine with this sort of thing taking place within an existing
> issue (e.g. "I'm also experiencing this bug with svn 1.1.3 on FC3 while
> using my laptop on a wireless connection under large trees"), but I'd
> rather not spam the dev list with it.

Agreed, I was advocating adding the "me, too!" messages to the
issue text, not on the dev list... :) Otherwise, how can you go
back and see how "popular" the issue is/was???

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