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[Maarten Vanraes]

Op donderdag 23 september 2010 00:03:44 schreef Marc Paré:
> Le 2010-09-22 17:36, Wolfgang Bornath a écrit :
> > 2010/9/22 Morgan Leijström<fri at tribun.eu>:
> >> Then that user might learn enough to write a good issue report, or
> >> someone else in that thread could offer to help.
> > 
> > Yes, that was always an option. Was it used and did it work? Yes, in
> > some cases.
> > If this system would be more advertized and used then I think it would
> > improve the situation.
> > 
> > We could have "bug friends" who an unexperienced user could turn to for
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> I like the idea of "bug friends". Great idea!
> 
> Marc


As a dev, i would not be opposed to a person who gives some kind of structured 
info about some priority bugs (eg: to a dev mailing list), or possibly via 
IRC. (not too often, and mostly about 'forgotten' bugs; or sometimes help with 
testing...)


In real life, mostly this kind of thing happens when a prominent forum member 
or a forum leader or a user mailing list prominent member gives a priority 
case a "better explanation" of what is going on, sometimes giving small hints 
on IRC. (I guess they could be 'bug friends' in that sense)


I might have forgotten triage people, sorry, triage people are important for 
the devs and i'm pretty sure they're underappreciated; they too help the 
bridge and sometimes are on forums, and urge users to submit a bug report. In 
that sense often they are 'bug friends' too.


I don't know if it's required for this kind of bug friends to be official; i 
might be inclined to believe they would rather prefer anonymous or even 
officious. Also, I'm not even sure who would even want this job...