[pmwiki-users] How to report bugs

Tegan Dowling tmdowling at gmail.com
Sat Mar 1 07:10:24 CST 2008


On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 5:36 AM, Hans <design5 at softflow.co.uk> wrote:
> Thursday, February 28, 2008, 10:07:02 PM, Simon wrote:
>  > I've drafted a page
>  > http://pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/HowToReportBugs
>  > in an attempt to assist everyone who seeks help from the mailing lists
>
>  I read through the page and like to raise a few points:
>
>  * For people seeking help I find the page both encouraging, as it
>  gives lots of pointers on what to try or where to look, and
>  discouraging, as it mentions after a list of 13 check points:
>
>    "Having done all of this, and being none the wiser about your issue
>    (although probably somewhat wiser about PmWiki) you could
>
>     * leave a query on the questions page
>     * post a message the the PmWiki mailing lists"

Also, I wonder about having the questions page listed before the
mailing lists.  From what I've seen, the questions page is a pretty
poor way to get help.  I'd actually suggest removing it entirely.



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