Re: User-Interface change for bugzilla...

[Alex Duggan <aldug astrolinux com>]

I don't think it makes sense to waste time modifying major parts of
bugzilla to make the input fields easier to use.  It would require a lot
of work and time spent doing that could be better spend doing things
like working on our bugzilla 2.16 setup.  Adding something like a note
on the bottom of the page saying if you want to post a comment, make
sure not to change any of the other fields.

Alex


On Thu, 2003-04-24 at 14:23, Elijah P Newren wrote:
> This was brought to my attention by bug 111281.  A quick browse to any
> bug and going to the bottom of the form, one notes that just above the
> "Save Changes" button, the section that contains the button is labelled
> "Private Changes (Reporter, assigned, or privileged members only)"
> 
> I've received multiply questions about being able to add comments to
> bugs, and it seems like a small change is in order to make it clear that
> everyone can add an Additional Comment to a bug, but that they can make
> no other changes unless they have some special status.
> 
> In particular, apparently someone told the reporter of 111281 that he
> should be able to add a comment about which distribution he was using
> when he was able to duplicate a bug.  He tried to add a comment AND add
> his distro to the "OS Details" field, and then got denied and assumed he
> wasn't allowed to make _any_ modifications (i.e. extra comments) to
> other people's bugs at all.
> 
> Does this sound reasonable?  Should I reopen bug 111281 and modify the
> summary slightly to refelct this?  Other thoughts?
> 
> Elijah