tl;dr
On March 1st, 2017, the BMO Team is going to make another attempt at
changing the default bug view to the new modal view that has been in
development for a while. For those who would like to use the old form,
instructions on how to switch back are below in the background
information. The old form will however be removed one day so please try
to use the new one and make suggestions on how it can be improved.
Thanks!
Background:
As some of you may already know, and maybe even have been using it
for a while, the BMO [1] team has been working on a new bug view page
(a.k.a show_bug.cgi) for some time [2] . The older, stock bug form was
not well laid out and was difficult to understand, with all of the
fields visible regardless of how often they were used. The stock form
was originally designed to display all of a bug’s data, and users had
to adapt their workflows accordingly.. The BMO team designed a
completely new and more efficient view for the workflows of the majority
of BMO users.
The new bug-editing form has been added to BMO alongside the stock
form and can be enabled by toggling a user preference [3]. We have been
incrementally improving it and collecting feedback by those brave enough
to use it early on. The new form is using more modern design practices
and therefore is easier for us to improve and expand on. Any new
enhancements will be done only on the new form going forward. It was
code named ‘Bug Modal’ due to the modular layout of the page. Each
submodule can be collapsed out of view and expanded when needed.
At this time we feel that the form is feature complete and ready to
become the new default bug form for BMO. We have been tracking the final
blockers in a bug report [4], and the last blocker(s) are being wrapped
up this week. We wanted to let everyone know of the coming
changeover in advance so that we can get last-minute feedback. The
older, stock bug view form will still be around, and we will update the
user preference to let users switch back to the old one [3]. In the
future, we will be removing the old form altogether after fixing a few
more bugs [6], and we will make another announcement before doing so.
Removing the old code will make it easier on us from a maintenance
standpoint.
Barring any issues with landing the last blocker(s), we are hoping
to do the changeover on March 1st, 2017. Until then, if this is the
first time you have heard of this new feature, go ahead and give it a
try. Any bugs, comments, or ideas for improvement of the modal form can
be reported in BMO [5].
Thanks!
BMO Team
[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org
[2] https://globau.wordpress.com/2015/03/31/bmo-new-look
[3]
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=settings#ui_experiments_row
[4] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1150541
[5]
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=bugzilla.mozilla.org&component=User%20Interface:%20Modal
[6] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1273046
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David Lawrence
d...@mozilla.com
bugzilla.mozilla.org
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