placatedmayhem@lemmy.worldtoAsk Lemmy@lemmy.world•Should I file bug reports for open source projects even if I am bad at writing bug reports?English
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6 days agoYes. I’m not sure what you think makes you bad at writing bug reports, but here are tips I give to everyone (my day job involves working with bug reports).
Nominally, a decent bug report should have:
- the steps that got you the bug
- whether you can reproduce the bug
- what you expected to happen instead of the bug
Doing any of these things makes bug reports so much more actionable. You can do it. I believe in you!
Edit: Including a contact method so the software developer can have a conversation with you can also be helpful but not strictly required. Some bug reporting methods do this implicitly, like email bug reports and GitHub issues.
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