On 6/8/2018 6:24 AM, David Smiley wrote: > Many of us have accidentally added a long-form description of our JIRA > issues into the Environment field of JIRA instead of the Description. > I think we can agree this is pretty annoying. It seems to have been > happening more lately with a change to JIRA that for whatever reason > has made it more visually tempting to start typing there. I want to > arrange for some sort of fix with infra. I'm willing to work with > them to explore what can be done. But what should we propose infra do > exactly? I'd like to get a sense of that here with our community first.
I think a free-form text box for environment is important, and I wouldn't want to get rid of it entirely. Reordering things so description is the first large text box is one option, and might be the best idea. Other ideas: * Put some kind of button or other control in place so the user has to click on something to open up an environment text box. * Use a visual cue of some kind to emphasize the description box and draw the eye to it. Borders, colors, etc. * Provide a series of radio buttons, checkboxes, and/or dropdowns for a user to choose various aspects of their environment from pre-defined choices. Disadvantage is that would require considerable maintenance as the project and possible environments change. Also, a user would not be able to describe an aspect of their environment that might be a little unusual. I have no idea how much control Infra actually has over this. It might require an upstream change in Jira. Thanks, Shawn --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org
