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[Jonathan Lange <jml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Aug 3, 2009 at 5:40 PM, Karl Fogel<karl.fogel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Curtis Hovey <curtis.hovey@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>> Is it necessary to post all of the instructions?  Or is it enough for a core
>>> developer to say:
>>>
>>>    "This is an easy fix, just
>>>     A)...,
>>>     B)...,
>>>     C)...,
>>
>> This is often what I do when I tag some this as trivial.
>
> +1, this way seems even better.  It's shorter, it tells the person
> exactly what to do, and (with the line below) it makes it clear that
> help is available.
>

FWIW, it also helps core devs, since it spares them from paging in
lots of info & figuring out why exactly this bug was easy.

jml