Extended triage guide -- useful?

[Elijah P Newren <newren math utah edu>]

Hi all,

Between Jeff's recent gnomedesktop article ("Want to get involved, but
need a hand?  at http://www.gnomedesktop.org/article.php?sid=1076, and
where there was an overwhelming request for more documentation),
questions that I find myself answering often for new people, the wish I
had when I got started that there was more documentation, and the things
that I've picked up that I thought should go into a single place, I
decided to make an extended triage guide.  It doesn't replace the
current one at all, but rather links to it and then adds other
information (examples of triaged bugs with explanations of the changes,
pointers on how bugzilla works, answers to questions that a new person
is likely to ask, etc.)  It turned out to take a lot longer than I
anticipated (and being a little longer than I first envisioned), but I
hope it's helpful.  Please take some time to read over it (or part of it
if reading it all would take too much time) and send me fixes, changes,
flames, links describing why my html sucks (which I'm certain that it
does, but hey--it looks fine using Mozilla...), explanations of how I've
been triaging bugs all wrong for the last eight months, and so forth.

The link: http://www.math.utah.edu/~newren/howto-triage/

Elijah

Me (thinking out loud as I scan the guide once again): Should I include
something in the bugzilla searches section about how bugzilla can croak
if you try to specify too many things?

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