Announcement: Changing the default bug view for BMO As some of you may already know, and maybe even have been using it for a while, the BMO [1] team has been working on a new bug view page ((a.k.a show_bug.cgi) for some time [2] . The older, stock bug form was not well laid out and was difficult to understand, with all of the fields visible regardless of how often they were used. The stock form was originally designed to display all of a bug’s data , and users had to adapt their workflows accordingly.. The BMO team designed a completely new and more efficient view for the workflows of the majority of BMO users.
The new bug-editing form has been added to BMO alongside the stock form and can be enabled by toggling a user preference [3]. We have been incrementally improving it and collecting feedback by those brave enough to use it early on. The new form is using more modern design practices and therefore is easier for us to improve and expand on. Any new enhancements will be done only on the new form going forward. It was code named ‘Bug Modal’ due to the modular layout of the page. Each submodule can be collapsed out of view and expanded when needed. At this time we feel that the form is feature complete and ready to become the new default bug form for BMO. We have been tracking the final blockers in a bug report [4], and the last blockers are being wrapped up this week. We wanted to let everyone know of the coming changeover in advance so that we can get last-minute feedback. The older, stock bug view form will still be around, and we will update the user preference to let users switch back to the old one[3]. In the future, we will be removing the old form altogether after fixing a few more bugs[6], and we will make another announcement beforehand. Removing the old code will make it easier on us from a maintenance standpoint. Barring any issues with landing the last blockers, we are hoping to do the changeover on January 16th, 2017. Until then, if this is the first time you have heard of this new feature, go ahead and give it a try. Any bugs, comments, or ideas for improvement of the modal form can be reported in BMO [5]. Thanks! BMO Team [1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org [2] https://globau.wordpress.com/2015/03/31/bmo-new-look/ [3] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=settings#ui_experiments_row [4] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1150541 [5] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=bugzilla.mozilla.org&component=User%20Interface:%20Modal [6] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1273046 _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
