[Develop] bugzilla comment templates
will
willg at bluesock.org
Thu Oct 25 18:33:55 EDT 2007
I've been commenting on a lot of bugs recently and I think we should add
comment templates to bugzilla's show_bug.cgi script.
The use case is this:
1. Bob creates a new bug which doesn't have enough data in the
description to go on. For example, Bob doesn't list steps to reproduce
the issue, doesn't state what version or operating system Bob is using,
doesn't list a summary of what Bob expected to happen, ...
2. Alice sees the newly entered bug and realizes it needs more information.
3. Alice decides that the "needs information" comment template is
appropriate to use here. Alice clicks on the "needs information" button
which is located next to the comment textbox. Some JavaScript fills in
the comment textbox with the comment template which contains all the
standard questions we ask. Then Alice makes some minor alterations and
clicks "submit".
I think often-times people don't know what information to include and/or
it doesn't occur to them to include it. It's not uncommon for us to ask
for more information for a bug. I suspect there are other responses we
use regularly, too.
I think this is trivial to implement and it might save us a lot of time
and aggravation. There's no reason we couldn't have multiple templates
to handle different situations.
Does this sound useful?
/will
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