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Comment by tyingq

5 years ago

Bug templates help, of course. But people do still just dump the wrong stuff in until the report is accepted. Like some kind of OS version in the App version field, for example. Or some ambiguous thing like "latest". Or copy/paste from an existing bug report from some other person. You can see this on many public repos.

> Like some kind of OS version in the App version field, for example.

Oh, I would be grateful for even that. Often enough, the bug template is simply deleted, the last line of the error in non-debugging mode is pasted in along with a "doesn't work"; or just "doesn't work".

  • While I don't do this intentionally, I do use a native Android app (fasthub) to submit issues. So far as I know, there isn't any GitHub app that has support for issue templates. Occasionally I'll submit an issue without remembering to check for a template first, though I usually remember before actually submitting.