Re: new keyword proposal

[Olav Vitters <olav bkor dhs org>]

Comments from gnome-bugsquad?

On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 06:09:23PM -0400, William Jon McCann wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> In GNOME Shell development we have plenty of issues that require input
> or decisions from designers (interaction/experience, visual, etc).  It
> would be great to have a way for developers to mark bugs as needing
> this attention and it would be great for designers to have an easy way
> to find out what needs attention.
> 
> We already have a number of keywords but none of them really seem to
> fit the bill (or are used for other purposes already):
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/describekeywords.cgi
> 
> Namely:
>   * HIG
>              Bug reporting an area where an application does not
> follow the HIG.
> 
>   * ui-review
>              Indicates a bug filed as part of the ui-review. Should be
> used only by the ui-review team.
> 
>   * usability
>              This keyword describes a usability/user interface
> change where the correct behavior is not necessarily obvious and input
> from the usability team is desired.
> 
> HIG is about compliance with consistency and behavior guidelines.
> ui-review is a process request.  usability is somewhat like a
> combination of the two.  It is not helpful for up-front experience
> design issues.
> 
> Would adding a new "design" keyword be reasonable?  This would allow
> the design team for any specific module to look at the bugs for that
> module.  It wouldn't be for any kind of "design team" request.
> 
> Thanks,
> Jon
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Regards,
Olav