On Fri, Nov 27, 2020 at 04:15:44PM +0100, Peter Krempa wrote: > On Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 19:51:53 +0000, Daniel Berrange wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 02:23:17PM +0100, Peter Krempa wrote: > > > Gitlab allows projects to define templates for filing issues [1]. > > > Libvirt didn't have them yet. We can use them to encourage users to > > > file better bug reports and feature requests. > > > > > > You can test-drive the proposed templates in my test repo: > > > > > > https://gitlab.com/pipo.sk/test/-/issues/new?issue%5Bassignee_id%5D=&issue%5Bmilestone_id%5D= > > > > > > Any suggestions on how to improve them further are very welcome. > > > > Looking at it live, I get a bit lost about where exactly I need > > to enter the information, as the huge comments dominate the view > > compared to the prompts for information. I worry that people will > > enter information inside the comments, which then gets thrown away. > > It's not completely thrown away. If you edit the bug description, you > still see the full source which was submitted. > > Also the very first line mentions that the comments are not shown ... > > > I wonder if we're better off just having the headings/prompts > > and linking to an external page with verbose suggestions. > > ... so if the user doesn't bother to read that, I doubt a link to full > description will help. > > I can try to send a cut-down version, which will have only single-line > comments with the suggestions, but I still think that we are better off > having the request for data in the body of the bugreport than sending > them to some documentation elsewhere. I pushed an example of a simpler template that is much more like the view you get when using Bugzilla: https://gitlab.com/berrange/libvirt/-/issues/new https://gitlab.com/berrange/libvirt/-/commit/faf1aee60675604a04cbe2e2441dcad233963b86 IMHO, this kind of simpler template is less intimidating and clearer as to what information to provide. Regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :|