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How can I report a bug about nautilus conveniently (without creating an account or signing in). If you want to know about bugs you want to make it convenient right?

Here is a description of the bug...

link to an askubunut.com question

H2ONaCl
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  • If you wish to report bugs, firstly thank you for helping test the release, but please see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs – guiverc Apr 18 '23 at 05:59
  • If you're using a development release, you can use #ubuntu-next forums/sites including IRC, where others will note what you report, and if they can re-create it write the report for you. Your linked question though is for a rather old release (~six stable releases ago from development now) thus will only get security fixes in most cases; with universe packages in their last days of guaranteed support anyway. If it was reported & discovered in lunar whilst in development (now final/RC so only installer bugs are in focus now) it maybe fixed & backported to the LTS (22.04) – guiverc Apr 18 '23 at 06:03
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    Does this answer your question? How do I report a bug? – Nmath Apr 18 '23 at 06:06
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    "without creating an account or signing in" suggests that the reporter wants to fire-and-forget the report; to not answer questions from bug triagers about how to reproduce or about their setup or offering to help try fixes. That often results in closed/incomplete bug report that waste the (precious) time of triagers and developers. Rather like remaining outside a restaurant while hungry; stepping in and briefly interacting is much more likely to achieve the desired result. – user535733 Apr 18 '23 at 06:11
  • fyi: I mentioned IRC in my prior comment; but you can also use some other platforms too, eg. matrix, telegram in specific rooms, as well as discord & elsewhere too; for development releases though. Many platforms do require login so you must comply with rules of the service; but IRC is an example of one that can be used using only a web browser too. – guiverc Apr 18 '23 at 06:27

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In short, no. You can sign up/in to Launchpad to file bugs there. Similarly upstream projects like GNOME (where Nautilus originates) have a bug tracker you can sign up/in to also.

While we do want people to file bugs, we also want to get useful bug reports and limit spam. It's a well-known fact that if you leave bug report systems wide open, two things will happen:

  1. You'll get a lot of spam which humans need to manage, or write bots to manage - a colossal waste of time that could better be spent elsewhere.
  2. You'll receive a glut of completely useless bug reports.

Indeed, even with a mandatory sign-up process you still get many (although many fewer) spam and useless reports.

popey
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    Yes, I guessed that. BTW: The launchpad.net comments are off topic because they require a sign-in. Sometimes signing into launchpad.net is enough to make me not report the bug. This is a bug I've known about for years. Anyway I posted it to launchpad.net today. – H2ONaCl Apr 18 '23 at 09:53
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    Frankly, if you want it fixed, the absolute best thing to do is file the bug where the developer requests. You've now had the time-attention of four people on this question. Imagine how much more efficient it would be to just go and file the issue :) – popey Apr 18 '23 at 09:56