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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
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
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