Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] GitLab: Add "Bug" issue reporting template

[Daniel P . Berrangé]

On Thu, Jun 03, 2021 at 03:11:28PM -0400, John Snow wrote:
> On 6/3/21 3:26 AM, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> > I haven't reviewed earlier version, but I wonder about the "build from
> > sources" use case (this is not a template for distributions but for the
> > mainstream project), so maybe add:
> > 
> >    ## Build environment (in case you built QEMU from source)
> >    - configure script command line: (e.g. ./configure --enable-nettle
> > --disable-glusterfs --disable-user)
> >    - configure script summary output
> 
> Maybe just a little bit too much information. Even though I am pushing
> people to build from source, I actually think more reports are likely not to
> have done so.

We need to bear in mind what % of bug reports do we actually need
this information for.  We don't want to be asking for information
that we know is going to be irrelevant for (say) 60% of bug reports,
because that wastes time of users.

My gut feeling is that while configure args are useful to know in
many cases, I doubt it genuinely needed for more than a relatively
small percentage of bug reports.

Regards,
Daniel
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