People often suggest filing a bugzilla report. Well I have a perfect record not a single bugzilla I have submitted has been resolved. For example: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=134344
which is very annoying. Have other people had other experiences? I assume yes. So what am I been doing wrong?
Some of the bug reports get answered quickly, others seem to go un-noticed. The problem with a lot of bug reports seem to be that there are s many bug a is a duplicate of bug b. This leads to having to jump from one bug to another to find the resolution.
One thing that I seem to do with filing bugs is to submit too much information or give information that is incorrect for the problem.
When I first started submitting bug reports, I felt as you did. I felt that the bug reports were not dealt with in a quick enough timeframe or at least acknowleded as being looked into.
A nice thing about marking bugs as duplicates of another bug is that it brings in new grey matter to help resolve the issue. I saw this effect on an xmms bug that I submitted awhile ago. I was looking for why the default directory for new installs was not created and another person with the same symptom, but different views on the issue was removing patches until the causative patch was not included.
Bugzilla might be a little easier to follow if highly submitted bugs were put into a more centralzed location by developer categorizing and not storing bug a is a duplicate of bug b within a long chain of comments.
Instead, the tacking bug with all of the duplicates might be organizing leads from user a through infinity that has a similar problem and placing information that is actually useful into this developer generated scratchpad type of bug.
Also, a better and more reliable querying system needs to be found for finding bugs on hunts for bugs.
Just my views,
Jim
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