Re: Document "search for already known bugs in Savanah"

[Daniel J Sebald]

On 11/23/2013 06:30 AM, Pantxo Diribarne wrote:
> Hello,
>
> The best way (that I know of) to search for already known octave bugs in
> Savanah is to use the search link inside the bug menu, *not* the search
> area on the left hand side of the window. I learned this reading a post
> here on the maintainers list, but I can't find this information on the
> octave site [1]. Am I wrong ?
>
> I see that developers are worried about eventual duplicate bug reports
> about the GUI.

I took this into consideration when I questioned what to do with bug 
reports, i.e., having inexperienced users attempting a search on 
Savanah.  For years I was using what I thought was the search engine, 
thinking this one bad search engine--it tells me about all these bugs 
for other Savannah projects.  Turns out I was using the wrong search as 
posted by someone on the maintainers list.


>  Furthermore, the GUI directs user to this pages [1] if
> they want to report a bug. It seams to me that a small paragraph should
> be added. Using my frenchglish :
>
> "... reported problems is the Octave bug tracker
> <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=octave>. You should use the
> "search" link under the "bug" menu in order to search for keywords in
> octave specific bugs."
>
> Pantxo
>
> [1] http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/bugs.html

This is pretty good, so definitely make sure people are directed to that 
site.  But you are right that there isn't enough of a statement about 
using the proper search engine and avoiding duplicate bug reports.

Dan