Open Bug 156437 Opened 23 years ago Updated 11 years ago

OS guessing code lies when it fails

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(Bugzilla :: Creating/Changing Bugs, defect, P2)

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(Reporter: timeless, Unassigned)

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What I got: Other/other and: We've made a guess at your operating system and platform. Please check them and, if we got it wrong, email endico@mozilla.org. What I should have gotten: Other/other (ignoring bug about recognizing OS/2) We couldn't guess your operating system or platform, your useragent was FOO, if this matches a specific platform/os please email MAINTAINER (or file a bug in bugzilla).
Priority: -- → P2
Target Milestone: --- → Bugzilla 2.18
Unloved bugs targetted for 2.18 but untouched since 9-15-2003 are being retargeted to 2.20 If you plan to act on one immediately, go ahead and pull it back to 2.18.
Target Milestone: Bugzilla 2.18 → Bugzilla 2.20
Assignee: myk → timeless
Status: NEW → ASSIGNED
Comment on attachment 144340 [details] [diff] [review] per original plans there should be a <code>...</code> wrapper for the useragent field. i'll do that when i commit.
Attachment #144340 - Flags: review?(kiko)
Attachment #144340 - Flags: review?(vlad)
Comment on attachment 144340 [details] [diff] [review] per original plans What should the maintainer do if he receives an email regarding an unrecognized UA string? If the maintainer is a coder, he might hack his local install of Bugzilla. But I think mentioning filling a bug in Bugzilla is mentioning worthing as well. Filling a bug in Mozilla is the right thing to do in most cases. Also, I guess you could split that into 3 sentences: We couldn't guess your operating system or platform. Your useragent was foo. If this uniquely matches a specific platform/os, please fill a <!--b-->ug in <!--B-->ugzilla. Or something like that. My opinion, anyway :)
Attachment #144340 - Flags: review?(vlad) → review-
please <a href="http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/query.cgi?product=Bugzilla">search</a> for a report about your useragent, and failing to find one, <a href="http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Bugzilla">file a report</a>. ?
Vlad: why would you dodge the bugword mechanism for those strings? Gerv
gerv: what kind of silly question is that? we're explicitly talking about filing a Bug in Bugzilla at bugzilla.mozilla.org Note that it would be B<!> not <!--B-->
timeless: the template your patch changes is a general Bugzilla template, and the text you are altering the wording of appears on all Bugzilla instances. So, you would need to use the bugwords mechanism - [% terms.Bugzilla %] etc.. Gerv
gerv: wake up. pay attention. read the bug and whole comments before you comment. in comment 4, you clearly missed this portion: > If the maintainer is a coder, he might hack his local install of Bugzilla. But > I think mentioning filling a bug in Bugzilla is mentioning worthing as well. > Filling a bug in Mozilla is the right thing to do in most cases.
Yeah, that phrase somewhat confused me. Never mind... let me try again. I don't think the platform/OS guessing code is important enough that it should be the one place in the general Bugzilla UI where we tell people to file bugs in bugzilla.mozilla.org if something isn't working. Also, how is an end-user supposed to judge if Bugzilla was supposed to have been able to guess their OS and platform? ("if this matches a specific platform/os please email...") Gerv
Comment on attachment 144340 [details] [diff] [review] per original plans users are encouraged to think. if their useragent says "NeXTStep" somewhere in it, and we don't do anything with NeXTStep, then it'd mean something to them. If their useragent is fairly generic and their system is fairly generic, then hopefully users will be less inclined to think it's unique. however, if you feel that they should complain to maintainer, then have i got a patch for you.
Attachment #144340 - Flags: review?(gerv)
> Vlad: why would you dodge the bugword mechanism for those strings? Because it makes little sense to complain in Openoffice's Issuezilla or you name it... about a Bugzilla bug, doesn't it? :-) > I don't think the platform/OS guessing code is important enough that it should > be the one place in the general Bugzilla UI where we tell people to file bugs in > bugzilla.mozilla.org if something isn't working. I agree. Simply saying: "We failed to detect your OS or platform." is also ok (without any further advice on how to proceed further).
Attachment #144340 - Flags: review?(gerv)
Attachment #144340 - Flags: review?(kiko)
This bug has not been touched by its owner in over six months, even though it is targeted to 2.20, for which the freeze is 10 days away. Unsetting the target milestone, on the assumption that nobody is actually working on it or has any plans to soon. If you are the owner, and you plan to work on the bug, please give it a real target milestone. If you are the owner, and you do *not* plan to work on it, please reassign it to nobody@bugzilla.org or a .bugs component owner. If you are *anybody*, and you get this comment, and *you* plan to work on the bug, please reassign it to yourself if you have the ability.
Target Milestone: Bugzilla 2.20 → ---
QA Contact: mattyt-bugzilla → default-qa
Assignee: timeless → create-and-change
Status: ASSIGNED → NEW
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