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[Jonathan Lange <jml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 6:48 AM, Karl Fogel <karl.fogel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> James Westby <jw+debian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> In truth though I neglected to read the log of the bug you posted and
>> thought "One way to do this would be to use javascript to doctor the
>> location after the page has loaded" were the only steps suggested in
>> the bug. Apologies for not reading it more thoroughly.
>
> At the time you read it, those were the only steps listed; the rest I
> added later -- so certainly no need to apologize on your part!
>
> It's interesting that this bug, which I picked because it looked so
> obviously trivial, turns out to be complicated (as revealed by the
> discussion with micahg).  This does not bode well for trivial bugs in
> general, but it's only one data point so far.

As long as people can mark bugs as 'trivial' (or 'easy'), they'll make
mistakes about how easy a bug actually is.

However, I don't think that means we should stop doing so. Instead, I
think the solution is to actually try to fix trivial bugs.

If you know what you are doing, try doing it, setting yourself a time
limit. If you don't know what you're doing, talk with someone who
does. Worst case is that you'll end up removing the trivial tag and
adding some hints on how to fix it.

jml