Re: New simple-bug-guide.cgi

[Luis Villa <louie novell com>]

On Sun, 2004-08-29 at 18:44 +0100, Andrew Sobala wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I've uploaded a new http://bugzilla.gnome.org/simple-bug-guide.cgi -
> it's quite a bit better than the old one ;)
> 
> One problem it does have is it suffers a bit from bug 141365 -
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=141365 - but once that's fixed
> it should get some keywords right by default.
> 
> It would be nice if people could test it a bit, file bugs, even file
> patches.... Once we've ironed out the bugs, I'm thinking of updating the
> global bugzilla footer to look something like this:
> 
> New (advanced interface) | Search | etc...
> 
> and "New" going to simple-bug-guide whilst "advanced interface" goes to
> the normal enter bug form.

That looks pretty awesome, Andrew. My only suggestion is maybe asking
the usability folks about the location of the 'next' button? It seems
sort of awkward floating out there on its own, to me, but I don't really
have a substantially better suggestion.

[Well, maybe a crackheaded suggestion- use javascript, and only show the
'next' button after appropriate data has been entered?]

Oh, one other potential enhancement- KDE inserts a search on the
product/component/summary after getting those three bits of information,
then returns results, asks you to skim them, and then asks for all the
other information if you don't find a dup.

Anyway, those are quibbles- this is basically really great work. (I
particularly like the illustrations of how to find version information.)
Thanks!

Luis