Re: [Gimp-user] [Gimp-developer] Curious about GIMP-2.10 bugs on Windows

[Ofnuts <ofnuts gmx com>]

On 05/13/18 19:12, Michael Schumacher wrote:
> On 05/13/2018 06:54 PM, Ofnuts wrote:
>
> > Another reason is that it is not in Windows users' mentality (and
> > perhaps in non-programmers' mentality) to report bugs... Consider things
> > broken and abandon silently, often, whine in forums, sometimes, but
> > report bugs, never.  And it's not only with Gimp... Maybe we should find
> > a middle ground between the useless "It's broken, fix it" and the
> > intimidating formality of the bug report on Bugzilla.
> You mean "people", not "Windows users". Being able to describe anything
> in a way that is easy to understand is an acquired skill.
>
> The middle ground is already there - there are regulars on every list
> and forum with experience in the tools involved, and they can make it
> their task to convert "it is broken!"-type message into useful bug
> reports, or refer to existing ones.
>
>
> A recent example would be
>
> https://old.reddit.com/r/GIMP/comments/8ixiij/annoying_bugs_in_2100_with_selection_tools/
>
> which resulted in the following two new bug reports:
>
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=796071
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=796073
Also that one: 
https://www.gimp-forum.net/Thread-Text-Along-Path-Problem--1988

that became: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=796021

Still, a rather small team of regulars.