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Bug 368042
Opened 18 years ago
Updated 12 years ago
For resolved bugs, require editbugs to leave a comment and provide better alternative UI
Categories
(Bugzilla :: Creating/Changing Bugs, enhancement)
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(Reporter: Wurblzap, Unassigned)
References
(Depends on 1 open bug)
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(Whiteboard: [wanted-bmo])
Some fixed bugs show a tendency to turn into a support forum for users of older versions. This is annoying to people who are interested in the bug but not interested in support work.
It might be a good thing to have Bugzilla automatically point people to a support web page. My initial thought about this is to restrict adding comments to CLOSED bugs to editbugs members. (Maybe there are better criteria.)
Non-editbugs members are shown a friendly page to consider looking at a certain web page instead (product-specific; for the Bugzilla product on b.m.o, this might point to http://www.bugzilla.org/support/).
See also bug 207090.
Updated•17 years ago
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Comment 2•16 years ago
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Copying comment from the dupe (though it's only a dupe in the sense of redirecting basic users from commenting):
It seems like the vast majority of comments from random users (i.e. without
editbugs) are either "still seeing X" + "please file a new bug" interactions or
complaints about the resolution of a bug.
I think it'd be more useful to lock resolved bugs to editbugs users, and have a
"if you're still seeing this bug, please file a new report" bit in place of a
comment field with a link to a prefilled bug report with the same metadata, and
with some appropriate link back to the original bug (dependency or comment,
either is fine, really, though we'd want to add a comment to the original if we
used a comment).
I'm sure this would have to be an option, but I think the benefits would be
huge for steering users into filing a new report if something regresses/recurs.
Summary: For CLOSED bugs, require editbugs to leave a comment → For resolved bugs, require editbugs to leave a comment and provide better alternative UI
Updated•16 years ago
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Whiteboard: [wanted-bmo]
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