0008215: Low quality / misplaced bug reports

ID	Project	Category	View Status	Date Submitted	Last Update

0008215	Kali Linux	Kali Websites & Docs	public	2023-03-12 09:10	2023-08-09 16:04

Reporter	kali-bugreport	Assigned To
Priority	normal	Severity	minor	Reproducibility	have not tried
Status	new	Resolution	open

Summary	0008215: Low quality / misplaced bug reports
Description	There seems to be a huge amount of low quality and/or misplaced bug reports in this bug tracker In general nearly no one is following https://www.kali.org/docs/community/submitting-issues-kali-bug-tracker/ Bug reports have no real usable info, contains too much irrelevant info and similar Issues are raised here instead of in the Bug Tracker of eg. Debian or the bug tracker of the software in question Bug reports are eg. added to the "Feature Request", "Package improvement" or similar category The ongoing issue of some users (or even bots?) cloning existing issues (See 0006983) As the Kali team seems to be fairly small and not able to handle all of the 7k open issues it probably make sense to increase the efforts for users to create bug reports. Some ideas: Use templates for bug reports like suggested in 0006984 Restrict permissions to trusted users only (eg. some permission model working together with the forums, ...) Always show a "jump in" message when opening the bug tracker for the first time (maybe possible on web server?) which gives users guidance where and how to create a bug report

Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2023-03-12 09:10	kali-bugreport	New Issue
2023-03-12 09:12	kali-bugreport	Note Added: 0017644
2023-08-07 14:15	Scoby290	Issue cloned: 0008415
2023-08-09 16:04	daniruiz	Relationship added	has duplicate 0008415

kali-bugreport 2023-03-12 09:12 reporter ~0017644	Overall the goal should be to increase the quality of bug reports to decrease the amount of work the Kali team needs to put into them. Because the current situation looks quite awkward due too the real low quality of bug reports.