There is an overwhelming perception that spending hours investigating a bug is reasonable, but spending 30 minutes filing a bug is not. Why?
And a lot of maintainers don't do a lot to improve that perception.
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This is why I resist issue templates on my projects.
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the issue reporters that clear our template are nearly always the ones we have to have a silly follow up "please provide a repro"
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1: a. I haven't found that. b. There are many different kinds of issues and follow-up questions by experts are easier on contributors than
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2/2: asking every possible follow-up question up front.
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What about basic stuff, like what version? And do you see much traffic that's better suited for stack overflow?
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Version seems somewhat ok but I admit to often, as an issue filer, feeling flummoxed when asked to fill that in.
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The template should tell you exactly how to find it.
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Templates should also start with a free form way to describe what went wrong and end with minimal "template"y stuff.
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