On Mon, 21 Nov 2016 22:16:13 +0000 Liam liam.bulkley@gmail.com wrote:
This would still use bugzilla (... sorry, I thought I had mentioned that elsewhere). This is targeting the problem—as referenced by Josh—with getting the majority of users to actually both report problems and providing a SEAMLESS way for the developer to get back in touch with the reporter. So, absolutely this is still using bugzilla, but it's changing the way this particular type of user would interact with it.
So, the idea is to make it easier for the reporter to maintain a dialog with the maintiner(s) by making a more direct interface than a web browser or email client, right? I'm afraid I am skeptical that this will help.
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- I encounter a bug and the abrt gui notifies me about it, so I
attempt to be a good user and file a report.
- Assuming all goes well (hey! I've got an account! but I don't
remember my password so into the browser I go...) the report gets filed.
- Sometime later I get an email...which I don't see because I get a
lot of email, or I don't get a lot of email and only check it occasionally, or I'm just not diligent at checking my email because it's not a place where I do the majority of my communications, etc; and I don't heavily interact with bugzilla, so it's not something my mail client knows to prioritize, assuming it didn't toss it as spam.
- For one of those or some other reason, I don't respond to it. In
the best case, the bug gets a +1 from other users who then pickup the slack I left. It's more likely that it gets closed automatically after 90 days (or whatever) of no activity when the bug is at the state of needinfo.
Sure, but a pop up dialog bugging me about it sounds a good deal more intrusive than an email.
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I would much prefer to just use the one app that I used to submit the report to handle all of these issues. Issues which are really TIED to that particular desktop from which the report came, and not my email account, such can be accessed from any of several devices. My side of the interaction should really only occur if I'm at the computer which was the origin of the report.
Perhaps you could approach the abrt folks and see if some of your ideas could be implemented there?
kevin