People got mad at me because I entered “Install SUSE x.y-Beta-z” in Bugzillas “how to reproduce” field. Why?
Because this is completely useless information – redundant and not helpful in any way to reproduce a bug. We can tell a bug is about installation because you selected “Installation” from the Bugzilla component list, and we can tell what release you installed from the release list right next to that. What we really need to know is what you did and how you did it – like “boot from CD1, select “Installation”, select language “Klingon”, leave the installation settings as they are, confirm installation, watch as your hard disk goes up in flames.” And no, this really, really isn’t nitpicking – we have so many installation modes and so many installation paths that it takes ages to figure all that out from the log files. You have that information readily available, so please enter it at that field. Of course, we don’t need that level of detail when you are reporting a bug about a help text in one of the final hardware configuration dialogs (like printer, TV card, etc.) – but the steps to get t
