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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0006984 | Kali Linux | [All Projects] Kali Websites & Docs | public | 2021-01-10 11:51 | 2021-06-22 19:42 |
| Reporter | kali-bugreport | Assigned To | Gamb1t | ||
| Priority | normal | Severity | minor | Reproducibility | have not tried |
| Status | assigned | Resolution | open | ||
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| Target Version | Fixed in Version | ||||
| Summary | 0006984: Description template for new bug reports / new tool requests | ||||
| Description | While browsing the bugtracker here i have noticed: - a high amount of low quality bug reports - repeated "to speed up the process please use that template" responses by the Kali team for new tool requests Since version 2.13.0 Mantis seems to provide the possibility to configure / defined default descriptions for each category, maybe this could help to get bug reports with a higher quality: https://support.mantishub.com/hc/en-us/articles/360002897994-Setting-default-values-for-issue-details | ||||
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With "low quality" bug reports i mean a few things: - misplaced questions / help requests which should go into the forums (e.g. 0006985) - issues with long / continues text and including sentences like "i like to ..." where useful info from the issue first needs to be extracted with a lot of effort - generally lack of information on the issue The template could e.g. do a few things: - Asking a few mandatory info in a structured way (e.g. problematic package, short steps like 1., 2., 3. to reproduce, ...) - Short description that questions / help requests should go into the forums - Link to https://www.kali.org/docs/community/submitting-issues-kali-bug-tracker/ - Have the content of e.g. 0004572:0009020 |
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Another issue which might be prevented is posting bug reports in e.g. the "New Tool Requests" category by adding a short comment on the purpose of the categories. |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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| 2021-01-10 11:51 | kali-bugreport | New Issue | |
| 2021-01-10 13:42 | kali-bugreport | Note Added: 0014092 | |
| 2021-01-10 14:05 | kali-bugreport | Note Added: 0014094 | |
| 2021-06-22 19:42 | steev | Assigned To | => Gamb1t |
| 2021-06-22 19:42 | steev | Status | new => assigned |