Comment 0 for bug 117914

Hplip does not install correctly after 7.04 upgrade keeping /home. To discover this required a lot of misinstalls then a long time searching Launchpad bug reports. After discovery the fix requires reading all of the trials and mistrials of all several reports to accumulate all of the knowledge then guess as to how to best assimilate and order it in order to do a proper install. In fact, I see that a source fix has been uploaded to Gutsy and failed to install on every platform.

It seems to me that the best way to insure the progress of Open Software is to have a bug fix repository such as Launchpad and every time something is fixed to give a step by step how to for installing the fix. Perhaps this should be in a tab beside the Answers tab called "Solution path" or "Step by Step Howto."

It seems to me that one or more developers who installed sw and then fixed a bug in it could write up a little step by step howto in a very few minutes. I know most users will not read all of the steps, mistakes, progress, backtracking, etc. that goes on to identify a problem. They are even less likely to be able to remember and implement those steps that were productive while discarding those that were backtracks, mistakes, and irrelevant.

I have been a developer who was shielded from users. But here were we are comparing a few minutes of one person's time to provide a little step by step against a much longer period of time for each and every user affected.