Bugzilla comments - appropriate?

[jeshyr]

I have been poking around at bug 3893 because it looked really simple, but in doing so I realised that it needs skills I don't have (i.e.: being able to use a graphics editor!) so I can't complete it. But it did take a fair bit of poking around to discover that the file that needs to be edited seems to be $LJHOME/htdocs/stc/fck/editor/plugins/livejournal/ljuser.gif.

I'm wondering if I should toss a comment on the bug in bugzilla saying "Hey I think that this is the file that needs editing" or whether I should just leave it alone.

The thing that makes me most nervous about putting things on Bugzilla is every time I do something it shows me this huge list of email addresses and says it's notified them all. I don't want to interrupt important hacking just to make a comment about something. I especially don'tt want to do that when my comment might be (a) wrong, (b) irrelevant, or (c) totally obvious and therefore redundant to anybody else who's likely to try and hack at it!

Posting to communities or IRC or IM is heaps easier because I know that's not going to totally spam people and it'll just be easily ignored by anybody who isn't interested. Can somebody point me in the right direction?

I hate that I'm so overawed and intimidated by this hacking stuff - I know both denise and fu and a bunch of other coders have reassured me that I don't need to be but for some reason it's this huge enormous psychological hurdle where I am feeling almost paralysed with terror :(

Comments

[azurelunatic]

"A fair bit of poking around" is still work that you put into it, and you got a file name out of it. Even if it's not the right file name, a comment saying "I did some poking around and I think this is the file that needs to be edited", and the file, will let a more experienced dev take a look at it, and maybe confirm that yes, that's the very file -- or if it's not the file, say that no it isn't, and maybe give some indication of a better path.

When I'm on the list, consider that I am subscribed to all comments to all entries in dw_suggestions for a moment. ;) (Also in capslock_dreamwidth, but that's a little less dev-ilicious.)

[cesy]

You're not the only one subscribed to all comments in all entries in dw_suggestions, either.

[matgb]

I am subscribed to all comments to all entries in dw_suggestions for a moment

There are many of us from the way comments flow in at times.

And yeah, I'm subbed to a few Bugzilla things, not because I can help (although it's been known) but because I'm curious and want to know how things're progressing.

Which reminds me, I need to go look at the bugs I selected as "might help with" in August, as, um, haven't actually done anything but some might be done.

[jeshyr]

Thanks for the feedback, it's helped a lot having everybody chime in!