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Mention "The XY Problem" in bug reporting guide
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A common type of bug report we get is someone asking how to do Y, when they really want do Y to solve X.
This is a documented phenomenon here: http://xyproblem.info/
It might be worth mentioning this and how to avoid it in our bug reporting docs.
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