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Q&A Should we use the Article type for bug reports?

I've sometimes seen bug reports be answered with workaround while awaiting a fix. I think I've seen that here on Codidact (though I haven't gone looking for examples). I know I saw it sometimes o...

posted 4y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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#1: Initial revision by user avatar Monica Cellio‭ · 2020-09-10T02:49:34Z (about 4 years ago)
I've sometimes seen bug reports be answered with workaround while awaiting a fix.  I think I've seen that here on Codidact (though I haven't gone looking for examples).  I know I saw it sometimes on Some Other site.  I don't know how important it is, but it's something we would lose if we made this change.

We can't currently tie post types to tags, so this would be a *convention* of using the article post type when reporting bugs but not something we could enforce through the system.  This means there'll be a learning curve and some mis-fires.

Available post types are tied to the category.  If we kept bug reports here in the main Q&A category and wanted people to use articles for them, then asking a question here would require explicitly choosing a post type (question or article) each time.  (When there's only one type of top-level post the software doesn't ask because you only have one choice.)  This could be mitigated by creating a separate category for bug reports; I don't know if that segregation would be a good thing or a bad thing.

We probably need a better approach to bug reports than what we have now, but I don't know what that is.  Suggestions welcome!