Bugzilla and typos (was: Re: Announcement: string change in gnome-control-center, about-me capplet

[Clytie Siddall <clytie riverland net au>]

On 08/08/2005, at 10:01 PM, Tino Meinen wrote:

> It wouldn't have caught the to/too error in this case. A grammar  
> checker
> perhaps would, but a grammar checker would barf on so many messages it
> wouldn't even be fun.

That's true, but there are a lot of simple spelling errors which a  
spellchecker _would_ catch, so I still think it's worth while.

I do understand about the limitations of spellcheckers: you can't use  
one with my language at all, since it's all monosyllabic words  
combined differently for different meanings. :(
> What would really help is an easy and quick way to report a spelling
> error, other than to fire up your browser and file a bug in  
> bugzilla. I
> know if you report bugs a lot, you can make a report in about 1 - 2
> minutes, but being able to do so, in say, 15 seceonds would be super.
> (about the same time it would take to write an email to a mailing  
> list)

I find the Advanced Form for bug report is much quicker: two pages  
instead of several. Mind you, I had to ask them to hack their login  
code, because my ISP has a rotating server farm for HTTP, which meant  
that despite cookies, I had to log in again for each page of  
Bugzilla ... it's been much easier since that.

Probably what takes the most time is paging down the huge list of  
Gnome modules, to find the one you need to report... ;)
> I recall that the bugbuddy people were thinking about adding such a
> 'spelling error mode' to bugbuddy, but I'm not sure about that. It may
> just be wishful thinking on my part...

It would be good to have a category for it, as for translation  
errors: they're not bugs in the functional sense, but they do damage  
the effect of the program, and in major cases, interfere with its  
normal function.

What do you think would make the bug-reporting process quicker? I  
report bugs to Debian using email, but you need to set specific  
headers in the body of the email, so it's not really any quicker, if  
you normally have your browser and mailer open anyway.

from Clytie (vi-VN, Vietnamese free-software translation team / nhÃm  
Viát hÃa phán mám tá do)
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