Re: LOR status page?

From: Richard Coleman <richardcoleman_at_mindspring.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2004 20:16:53 -0500
Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> At 3:46 PM -0800 3/24/04, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 02:03:28PM -0600, Jon Noack wrote:
>>  > Would it be helpful to put up a web page with all known lock
>>  > order reversal false positives (or better yet all known lock
>>  > order reversals with a status indication)?  This would allow
>>  > people to check there before reporting, saving everyone time.
>>
>> Clearly we need to do something to stop people reporting the same
>> non-bugs every day, the problem is that it needs to be somewhere
>> people are likely to check.  Maybe a pointer to your proposed
>> webpage in UPDATING will help.
> 
> 
> Could we do something so we don't PRINT the false-positives?  If
> we're about to turn 5.x-current into 5.x-stable, then it is not
> good to tell users "Here are a bunch of error messages that you
> should just ignore".  At least in my experience, what happens is
> that users are much more likely to ignore *all* error messages.
> 
> I have no idea what would need to be done, of course.  I'm just
> uneasy at telling users to ignore scary-looking error messages.
> 
> I do agree that a web page saying exactly which ones to ignore
> would be better than expecting end-users to figure that out by
> scanning the mailing lists...

I'm assuming WITNESS et al. will be turned off by default for 
5.3-stable.  So most users will never see these messages.

And I doubt a webpage will stop folks from reporting this.  Maybe a big 
note at the top of UPDATING would help.

Richard Coleman
richardcoleman_at_mindspring.com
Received on Wed Mar 24 2004 - 16:16:54 UTC

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