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On Jul 8, 2006, at 9:27 AM, Chris Wagner wrote:
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Well, this kind of stinks; now I can't even access the spec's wiki
page ( https://launchpad.canonical.com/KeepingBugsConcise ):
"The Launchpad development wiki is not available to the public."
Yes, sorry about that. The copy at
<https://wiki.launchpad.canonical.com/KeepingBugsConcise> is still up
to date (but won't be updated further).
...
How do you intend to encourage users to update the "bug description",
rather than post comments?
By making the "Edit Description" link more obvious and inviting.
I think there is a good idea here, though, I'm not sure if "bug
description" implies that you want as much solid information in there
as possible...
The way I see it, you want to have a main bug description/status that
tells the bug viewer as much solid information as is known about the
bug. Then, comments are more for talking about the bug; once a
conversation (through the course of several comments) concludes
something, it should be placed in the "bug description".
Yes, that's the idea. It's not the goal for every comment to end up
collapsed; but any time someone updates the description of a bug such
that one or more comments becomes collapsed, and such that
understanding the bug from reading description + all comments takes
less time now than it did before, that's a win.
Bugs need to be more like wiki pages. The model used for
specifications seems to work very well: you've got an organized pile
of information that evolves; things are added, removed, and improved
to make the overall vision clearer. You often have comments at the
bottom, but once they have served their purpose, they can be swept
away.
Exactly right. :-)
...
I do have one solid suggestion, however. I'm not sure if it's
actually a good one, but it's worth considering: If
multiple-comments-in-a-row are "folded", you could further fold those
comments into a single "box"; example:
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| 3 comments made from 2006-06-23 to 2006-07-07... |
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Yes, that idea occurred to me too over the past couple of months of
being subscribed to bug #1.
Thanks for your comments.
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Matthew Paul Thomas
http://mpt.net.nz/
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