R devel - Oct 2004 - R bug submit form

Dear R-developers,

I've noticed over the past few weeks there have been a number of
spurious bug report which seem to cause a lot of extra work.  I
thought maybe a small redesign of the bug submit form might help
reduce these and save someone some time, so I've had a go and attached
a prototype.

Main changes:

* Removed everything extraneous to submitting bugs

* Highlighted important details and added some suggestions as to what
to put in the OS and R version fields

* Added some of the key points from the FAQ bug report guidelines

* Added checkboxes to force people to think if what they are doing is
appropriate

I hope it may be of some use.

Hadley

On Sat, 16 Oct 2004, hadley wickham wrote:
> Dear R-developers,
> 
> I've noticed over the past few weeks there have been a number of
> spurious bug report which seem to cause a lot of extra work.  I
> thought maybe a small redesign of the bug submit form might help
> reduce these and save someone some time, so I've had a go and attached
> a prototype.
Unfortunately something has removed it en route. (I think the posting
guide says what attachments are allowed.)  Please try again.

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