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Reducing "You found a bug" reports


From: Ian Eure
Subject: Reducing "You found a bug" reports
Date: Sat, 08 Jun 2024 20:04:44 -0700
User-agent: mu4e 1.8.13; emacs 28.2

There’s a steady number of bug reports generated by the "You found a bug" message which happens during `guix pull's. The overwhelming majority of these reports are caused by networking problems or the Guix infrastructure being unreliable or overloaded. Many of these were submitted during the recent guix.gnu.org downtime.

Some of these that I see:

55066
62023
62830
61520
58309

...I’m sure there are many more.

Is there some way for this code to be smarter about when it prints the "report a bug" message, so it doesn’t tell users to report bugs when none exist? Is there a way for it to notice that the problem is related to networking, and tell the users to try again in a little while? Is it worth removing the "report a bug" message entirely?

It doesn’t feel great to tell users to report a bug for things that aren’t bugs. They’re either closed, or never followed up on; it’s a poor experience on both ends.

Thanks,

 — Ian




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