From 938452bfe92bf3d761e901ff67557ab4c3cf9698 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Dylan K. Taylor" Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2017 13:43:10 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Clarified guidelines on useless issues --- CONTRIBUTING.md | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md index d61139b6b..82c0b3cd8 100644 --- a/CONTRIBUTING.md +++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md @@ -18,8 +18,10 @@ - Information must be provided in the issue body, not in the title. No tags like `[BUG]` are allowed in the title, including `[SOLVED]` for solved issues. -- Similarly, no generic issue reports. For bugs, it is the issue author's responsibility to provide us an issue that is **trackable, debuggable, reproducible, reported professionally and is an actual bug**. If you do not provide us with a summary or instructions on how to reproduce the issue, it will be treated as spam and will therefore be closed. -
In simple words, if your issue does not appear to be a bug or a feature request, or if the issue cannot be properly confirmed to be valid, the issue will be closed until further information is provided. +- Similarly, no generic issue reports. For bugs, it is the issue author's responsibility to provide us an issue that is **trackable, debuggable, reproducible, reported professionally and is an actual bug**. +

Valid issue reports must include instructions how to reproduce the issue or a crashdump/backtrace (unless the cause of the issue is obvious). +

**If you do not provide us with a summary or instructions on how to reproduce the issue, it will be treated as spam and will therefore be closed.** +

In simple words, if the issue cannot be properly confirmed to be valid or lacks required information, the issue will be closed until further information is provided. - To express appreciation, objection, confusion or other supported reactions on pull requests, issues or comments on them, use GitHub [reactions](https://github.com/blog/2119-add-reactions-to-pull-requests-issues-and-comments) rather than posting an individual comment with an emoji only. This helps keeping the issue/pull request conversation clean and readable.