[mythtv-users] How to make a good bug report?

J. Donavan Stanley jdonavan at jdonavan.net
Fri Jul 9 16:03:33 EDT 2004


John Goerzen wrote:

>On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 12:26:52PM -0400, Joseph A. Caputo wrote:
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>>On Friday 09 July 2004 09:55, John Goerzen wrote:
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>>>As I write that, it occurs to me that both machines with the problem
>>>use AMD CPUs (one a AthlonXP 2800+, the other an Athlon64 running in
>>>32-bit mode), and the one without the problem is a Pentium M.
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>>...but you didn't provide that information the first time.  In reporting 
>>*any* bug for *any* software, you should at least include:
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>You are right.  I honestly thought that just about everyone would see
>and be aware of the bug.  I didn't realize it was not seen universally.
>I'll add everything you mentioned.  I think your list is a good one.
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Did you check the mailing list archives to see if such a thing had been 
reported, what the cause might be and what (if anything) you could do to 
correct it?  Something like this would have been all over the mailing 
list if it was affecting a lot of people.




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