-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Till Maas wrote: > On Wed June 3 2009, Kevin Kofler wrote: > >> And I don't think we can make bug reports any easier, the point is that the >> information is required, those "complicated" forms are there to request the >> information we need. > > I disagree: > > On https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=Fedora there are around > 29 form elements and the majority of these elements does not need to be used > by the non experienced bug reporter or are not used at all. > > Absolutely required are imho: component, version, summary, description, > security sensitive bug, External Bug and sometimes attachments or URL (8 > elements). Rarely the platform is required, but there does not need to be such > a long list of different archs for the normal user. > There are also some elements that are not used at all: OS, Target Milestone, > QA Contact, Estimated Hours and Deadline (5 elements) or not yet always used: > severity and priority. Also the "Fedora Project Contributors" checkbox seems > not to be used. > > The other elements are only used by experienced bug reporters or within the > triage process, e.g. Assign To, CC, Alias, Whiteboard, Clone Of, Keywords, > Depends on, blocks, 4 flags (12 elements). > > In conclusion, more than 66% of the form elements can be removed for the > unexperienced bug reporter. Also the component selection process could be made > easier, because the mapping from rpms to components could be made > automatically after a bug reporter supplied the name of the rpm he had > problems with. > > Regards > Till Maybe a form (like Review Request) for Simple Bug Report (or something) that's the default? I have the bug report page bookmarked in any case (the trail of links to get there from the front page is too much IMO; I haven't been able to get it below 3 or 4). - --Ben -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkonu60ACgkQiPi+MRHG3qSjNQCfRThyKRYQaTh6ok55CxGDeyZ8 N4sAnRMfJm9/Qkh4IW2wgzNJ5pvazBRT =Ij9o -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
