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{{hint|Why shouldn't I report issues in the community chats? | {{hint|Why shouldn't I report issues in the community chats? | ||
* Development takes place in platforms such as GitLab, sourcehut and Github with a certain procedure (issue reports, commits, linking to the issues and marking them solved). | * Development takes place in platforms such as GitLab, sourcehut and Github with a certain procedure (issue reports, commits, linking to the issues and marking them solved). Reports in the chat are not designated to be a part of that process (until an advanced artificial intelligence some day can evaluate them and automatically ask the user for more details). | ||
* Talking about an issue and workarounds carries the discussion further away from the actual development and leads to discussions in forums and chatrooms | * Talking about an issue and workarounds carries the discussion further away from the actual development and leads to discussions in forums and chatrooms. | ||
* Shared and accepted workarounds don't find their way back into the code and may be accepted as "tolerable evil". | * Shared and accepted workarounds don't find their way back into the code and may be accepted as "tolerable evil". | ||
* Bug reports in chats are getting scrolled out, repeated and as a result | * Bug reports in chats are getting scrolled out, repeated and as a result repetitive for everyone involved and leads to future users with the same or similar issues not getting pointed to the correct places anymore. | ||
* It is expected that people mentioning issues also report them. | * It is expected that people mentioning issues will also report them properly. Conversations about bugs without reporting them makes users and developers think it is reported already and as a result the issue will never be reported (and therefore not fixed). | ||
* | * Unlike many commercial and/or proprietary projects, developers are part of the open community and there is therefore no need of having to solve issues via side channels. | ||
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