How to report a bug in PureOS?

Hello dear community :slightly_smiling_face:

My question is very simple: where can users report a bug that they encountered on PureOS?

I spent 30 mins searching before reluctantly creating this thread. :frowning_face:

  1. Going to PureOS’ official website and clicking on Bug Tracker.
  2. Realising after some time that it’s possible to consult bug reports but not participate / create a bug report.
  3. Searching on PureOS’ wiki and not finding any mention of bug reports either.
  4. Coming on this forum to explain my frustration on something that is generally well indicated :frowning_face:

Suggestions

If users cannot create new accounts to report bugs, I respect that but it should be clearly stated either on the PureOS website or on the Bug Tracker website instead of leaving the users confused.

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I agree this is unclear. Perhaps @guido.gunther or @joao.azevedo could help with this.

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@prsunflower The reason why registrations for the bug tracker is closed is due several issues we had with spam accounts.

Please DM me your email address.

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Thank you for your reply Joao :slight_smile:

Would you consider implementing my ā€œSuggestionsā€ above?

I have contacted you. Many thanks :v:

I think it is more complicated than that. It is ā€œclosed but not closedā€. The antecedent ā€œIf users cannot create new accounts to report bugsā€ is not necessarily true. It’s just that it is now harder to get an account than it used to be - and if the reason that it is now harder is because of malicious parties, you don’t necessarily want to make it either easy or obvious to those malicious parties.

So in this case the score may be: malicious parties 1, all the rest of us 0. :frowning:

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How do we create an account in https://tracker.pureos.net/ ? I am not using LDAP protocol and just want to report a bug I found in the hardware

I think you want the ā€œStandardā€ login option, not the LDAP login option, but you should contact support (support@puri.sm) because, as I understand it, requests for accounts have to be approved manually anyway.

Also, if this is a bug in the hardware, that particular mechanism for reporting may not be the right one.

What hardware (i.e. what model) are we talking about?

i want to file a bug for Librem5/PureOS, in particular for Bluetooth stuttering.
pls see: Bluetooth stuttering

How DM works to get a https://tracker.pureos.net/ account?

I’m experiencing a bug in PureOS (after the last update, nheko didn’t open anymore) and wanna report, but like the original poster here, I can’t

I would register here: Explore projects Ā· GitLab

GitLab is where the current development happens.

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Thank you! But how it works? For example I’d like to report mozilla firefox settings window bigger than screen that doesn’t resize neither using purism mobile tool. In which section I’d report it?

PureOS / Infrastructure / pureos-image-recipes?

Or

Librem5 / debs / phosh-mobile-settings?

Or?

I’m not sure. I often have difficulties finding the correct project/repository as well. The structure of the groups and projects in GitLab confuses me. @jonathon.hall: what is the correct place for reporting issues, I think you wrote it once in a blog, but I could not find it any more.

Edit: here is some guidance: Librem5 / OS-issues Ā· GitLab

Edit 2: I found the blog. It states: ā€œAs you try it out, review the known issues and let us know about your experience.ā€ But this seems to be in the context of the Crimson alpha release. I’m not sure if other issues should go there as well, like your mentioned Firefox issue.

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The preferred place to report issues in PureOS is: Issues Ā· PureOS / Tasking Ā· GitLab

You’re right we have some cleanup to do in GitLab, and progress is being made, but we’re taking a slow and deliberate pace since it can be disruptive to reorganize repositories.

Thanks for all of your feedback!

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Thanks for the feedback, I opened an issue here: Firefox Translation settings page does not fit on screen (#15) Ā· Issues Ā· Librem5 / debs / firefox-esr-mobile-config Ā· GitLab

(I put this in the specific repo since in this case it’s clear that this issue will be fixed there. You can always report issues like this in Issues Ā· PureOS / Tasking Ā· GitLab, and we’ll move them to the specific place.)

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