[Phpmyadmin-devel] warning developers before bug submission

[Dieter Adriaenssens]

2013/9/18 Mohamed Ashraf <mohamed.ashraf.213 at gmail.com>:
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> On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 6:37 PM, Rouslan Placella <rouslan at placella.com>
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>> On 09/17/2013 10:30 PM, Mohamed Ashraf wrote:
>> > I use a line counts file to allow for some line number translation for
>> > submission of bug reports and the script that generates this file is run
>> > from the release scripts. If however a developer uses a git revision
>> > instead of a release, this file will not have been created. another
>> > situation is that the developer generates the file but does changes to
>> > the js files which renders the file obsolete.
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>> > I can detect the obsolescence of the file by checking of modification
>> > dates however what do I do if the file does not exist or is obsolete.
>> > should I disable error reporting entirely or just display a warning?
>> > keeping in mind that a problem with line number translation may result
>> > in inaccuracies of grouping similar reports together on the error report
>> > server.
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>> > if I am to entirely disable or display a warning, what should the
>> > message say?
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>> I would go with disabling the functionality. If someone is using a pma
>> version from git, they are probably techy enough to submit a report by
>> hand.
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>> Bye,
>> Rouslan
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> should I even display a message that an uncaught error has occurred or
> should I ignore error reporting completely on git checkouts.

It makes sense to display a message that something went wrong.

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Kind regards,

Dieter Adriaenssens