This is awesome. Congratulations to the team for pushing this through. --BDS
On Wed, Mar 1, 2017 at 3:47 PM David Lawrence <dlawre...@mozilla.com> wrote: > Today, the BMO Team changed the default bug view to the new modal > view that has been in development for a while. For those who would like > to use the old form, instructions on how to switch back are below in the > background information. The old form will, however, be removed one day, > so please try to use the new one and make suggestions on how it can be > improved. > > 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 has now > become the new default bug form for BMO. We have finished all the > blockers in our tracking bug report [4]. The older, stock bug view form > will still be around, and you can use the user preferences form to > switch back to the old one [3]. In the future, we will be removing the > old form completely after fixing a few more bugs [6], and we will make > another announcement before doing so. Removing the old code will make it > easier on us from a maintenance standpoint. 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&format=__default__ > [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 > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
