> I figured I'd better put in my two eurocents' worth > before the end of the discussion this time ;-) > > Frankly, I think voting on bugs is a _bad_ idea.
Personally, I had always looked at voting as being important for upcoming feature enhancements (which is the way it was built into RevZilla before Mark enabled the voting features in Bugzilla). > What revolution needs is a plug-in that IS the > bug reporting system, to be shipped with the program. > I seem to have seen that someone (was it Ken Ray?) > who is developing a Rev-like interface to Bugzilla. > Something along those lines would be much more > suited to this kind of application. Yes, it is me. RevZilla is available right now through RevNet or from my web site. I built it *because* I didn't like the web interface and I wanted something that could be used "right there" when you discover a bug. > Bug reporting systems should also be EASILY searchable > (and Bugzilla isn't), and it should help novices file > reports that are appropriate - ie, directed at the > appropriate area, using the correct jargon, etc. If > that doesn't happen, then information is misfiled, > you get enormous amounts of duplicate or closely > related bugs, and searching the database becomes > increasingly ineffective. RevZilla's search interface is more usable that Bugzilla's (IMHO), although your comments about guiding people to post bugs in a clear and consistent way is important. > If the amount of information needed to complete even > a simple bug report is too extensive, then the whole > process should be broken down into easy steps, and > users should perhaps be 'prompted along' with a series > of dialogues, in a step1, step2, step3 kind of way - > Bugzilla's options just seem too overwhelming. Well, one thing is that in both Bugzilla and RevZilla many of the options are set for you by default. So at a minimum you should only need to enter three pieces of information: what component the bug applies to, a summary and a description. Ken Ray Sons of Thunder Software Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: http://www.sonsothunder.com/ _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution