On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 9:26 AM, Platonides <platoni...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 12/05/12 18:17, David Gerard wrote: >> Discussion on Oliver Keyes' blog: >> >> http://quominus.org/archives/714 >> >> He's coming from the perspective of liaison with newbies. Read the comments. > > I have to say it's the first time I met him. > > I'll try to summarise his points below with my comments: > > 1a) The steps are not clear. > > Solution: Make the "Enter a new bug report" link of > https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/ much bigger. > > The intermediate page asking you to login is not "cool", but I think > that's a clear enough path. > > > 1b) There's no indication that your login is your email. > > Granted. This can be confusing. Specially for the perspective of a > mediawiki user. > The only positive point might be that, if you have recently registered, > you probably remember that your email is your login. > > The email sent by bugzilla does help, although it isn't explicit, either: >> To use the wonders of Bugzilla, you can use the following: >> >> E-mail address: platoni...@gmail.com >> Password: HPqd4NwIu > > Proposal: Add a message at the front page noting that you need a > different login for bugzilla, that it is our email, and it'll be > publicly visible.
+1. This is probably the biggest problem I have using bugzilla as an occasional, non-technical user :) If there's any way to tie the login to SUL that would be cool, but just providing more explanatory messages would be helpful! -- phoebe _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
