Re: PSA: please stop manually titling Bodhi updates

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On Thu, Nov 28, 2019 at 10:47:38AM +0100, Fabio Valentini wrote:
>    On Thu, Nov 28, 2019, 09:53 Joe Orton <[1]jorton@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>      On Wed, Nov 27, 2019 at 09:33:04AM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
>      > Hey folks!
>      >
>      > Since the new Bodhi UI rolled out recently I've noticed a big uptick
>      in
>      > updates where the update creator manually set the update title.
>      >
>      > This is a problem because in every single case so far, the manually-
>      > created title is worse than an auto-generated title would have been.
>      >
>      > If you just leave that box blank, Bodhi will set the update title to
>      be
>      > the NVR(s) of the package(s) in the update, just like it always has.
>      > But the new UI seems to really encourage people to override this and
>      > write a title manually...and people are picking titles that are worse.
>      > e.g. [2]https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-edc1551b22
>      > where the auto-generated title would have been
>      "container-selinux-2.123.0-1.fc31" but the update author manually set it
>      to "container-selinux", which is clearly much less useful.
> 
>      I think the web site UI can change the title to the component name like
>      that when you edit an existing update.  It did it to me a couple of
>      times, I thought I was doing something wrong but maybe it's just a bug.
> 
>    I think it's a bit confusing that in the old UI, the first input field was
>    for an autoconpleting package name, for automatically populating the
>    builds and bugs fields.
>    In the new UI, that "package name" field is gone, and instead, the first
>    input field is the "Update name" ... it took me some time to get used to
>    it.
>    Maybe the update name override should get moved to the far bottom of the
>    page? IMO it shouldn't be the first and most prominent input field since
>    it's *optional* and most people are currently using it wrong.

This is done in 5.1 which is currently running in staging:
https://bodhi.stg.fedoraproject.org/updates/new


Pierre
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