Due to some fixes that are taking longer than expected so we are going to push the cutover date to January 30th, 2016. Sorry for the delay.
Follow along at: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1150541 Thanks BMO Team On Friday, January 6, 2017 at 12:10:11 PM UTC-5, Dave Lawrence wrote: > 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
