[Reportbug-maint] Bug#614162: reportbug: Allow to report more than one bug

[Sandro Tosi]

user reportbug at packages.debian.org
usertags 614162 ui-gtk
thanks

Hi Éric,

On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 01:44, Éric Araujo <merwok at netwok.org> wrote:
> I usually report more that one bug at a time.  I may have a short list of
> bugs, or I may have found something interesting in the bugs list, added
> more info to that report, and now would like to proceed to report the bug I
> had in mind before that.  For these situations, it would be nice if the last
> screen (the one with the confusing Cancel-Apply buttons and the badly
> wrapped text) had a button allowing one to start a new report.
>
> To generalize that request, it could be a good idea to add a button (say on
> the bottom left of the GTK UI, so that it’s not mixed with the
> Cancel/Continue
> buttons that apply to the current report) that can launch a new window (or
> tab, but that’s another request I opened) at any time.
>
> The net benefit is that people could launch the program and do more than
> one report or reply without having to launch it again.

Please consider it's a *huge* change in reportbug way of working, so
don't expect anything soon.

> One obvious drawback of this idea is that one crash would make you lose
> more that one report.  Possible workarounds: launch a new process instead
> of a new window in the same process; auto-save reports in progress in $TMP;
> fix the damn GTK float bug <wink>.

that's a feature: it's a highly tuned AI that detects when a bug
report is not worth to be sent and automatically kills the problem
masking it as a floating point error :)

Cheers,
-- 
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