Comments on: Please don’t shoot the Bugzilla devs

By: افكار و احلام » Reporting Bugs

افكار و احلام » Reporting Bugs — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 07:38:26 +0000

[...] bug-reporting mode, finding three bugs to report while testing a fix for one other bug. The recent Bugzilla upgrade had a few rough edges, and for whatever reason I seemed to find a number of them first. In addition [...]

By: Luis

Luis — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 16:06:16 +0000

One thing I might suggest: making sure that everyone who complains publicly is guilted into filing a bug about their complaint, so that the thing can be discussed. Been very irritating to see people posting greasemonkey scripts to modify the UI without also linking to bugs where the complaints can either be dealt with or refuted.

By: Justin Dolske

Justin Dolske — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 00:08:33 +0000

Yes, in fairness the backend changes to BMO have been positive, as far as I can recall.

I think the current grumbling is a combination of few things:

* Changing the UI of a heavily used tool is always contentious. Sometimes people are set in their particular ways, sometimes the UI is “improved” for the worse, sometimes less-common use cases are not understood, sometimes it’s forgotten if something had been done on purpose or was cruft, difference of opinions, etc.

* OMGCHANGE!

* It wasn’t clear from that announcement that this was a big UI change, and not just a boring backend upgrade.

By: alanjstr

alanjstr — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 00:00:37 +0000

Is there a repository where you have all of the usage cases? Do you allow people to upload there so that you can consider things for the future?

By: RyanVM

RyanVM — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:57:58 +0000

I dunno, I personally like the changes. It makes it much harder to accidentally modify the bug when CCing, which was one of my biggest issues with the old style. Good job!