Cassandra, can you please try editing the JIRA config to re-order Environment below Description? I suppose Atlassian chose the current order because it matches the order it's seen when viewing the issue, which makes sense but I don't mind sacrificing that -- whatever it takes to diminish Environment.
IMO it also is only suitable for a "bug" and not other issue types. We also don't use "Sprint"; can you remove that? Scope creep.... ok and these Lucene Fields, two checkboxes, New and Patch Available... I just don't think we really use this but I should raise this separately. On Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 2:52 PM Steve Rowe <[email protected]> wrote: > +1 to try to fix the form ourselves, thanks Cassandra. I think putting > Description above Environment will do the trick. (I just created an issue > and put the description in the environment field…) > > -- > Steve > www.lucidworks.com > > > On Jun 8, 2018, at 8:44 AM, Cassandra Targett <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > I've been debating saying something about this too - I think it happened > when INFRA added some text to direct users to use the mailing list or IRC > if they really have a support question instead of a bug (INFRA-16507). > > > > The most basic solution is a simple re-ordering of the form, which in > JIRA is really easy to do. We could put the environment field near the > bottom and if someone is paying attention to the form and wants to fill it > in, fine, but the rest of us can get at the most commonly used/needed > fields quicker. > > > > As I was writing that I thought I'd refresh my memory of where screen > editing is done in JIRA, and it looks like those of us with committer > status have access to edit that form. So we can solve this quickly, and > probably we can do it on our own without asking INFRA. > > > > If we come to consensus on either burying or removing the field, I'd be > happy to be the one that makes the change. > > > > On Fri, Jun 8, 2018 at 7:24 AM David Smiley <[email protected]> > 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. > > > > IMO, I don't think a dedicated Environment input field is useful when > someone could just as easily type anything pertinent into the description > field of a bug report. Less input fields means a simpler JIRA UI -- a good > thing IMO. But since it's been used in the past, it may be impossible to > actually remove it while keeping the text on old issues. Nonetheless I'm > ambivalent if it were to be outright removed and others here want this > since I think it's of such low value that data loss wouldn't bother me. > > > > Can it be retained as a purely read-only on display but otherwise can't > edit? I'd like that. > > > > Perhaps the path of least change and thus "safest" path is for it to be > removed from the "Create Issue" screen, yet retain it on other screens for > those that are fans of adding/editing it? > > > > ~ David > > -- > > Lucene/Solr Search Committer, Consultant, Developer, Author, Speaker > > LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/davidwsmiley | Book: > http://www.solrenterprisesearchserver.com > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > -- Lucene/Solr Search Committer, Consultant, Developer, Author, Speaker LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/davidwsmiley | Book: http://www.solrenterprisesearchserver.com
