On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 4:50 AM Honza Bambas <hbam...@mozilla.com> wrote:
> I wanted to suggest (but never done that) to have specific fields (text > areas) in the bug form for following information: > - explanation of the cause of the defect or rational for the bug > - overview explanation of the fix for the defect (why this way); don't > interchange this with commit messages, this would be more of an overview > explanation > - steps to reproduce the defect > > and maybe things like: > - known workaround > The "User Story" field can be (ab?)used for all those things. If the bug is not an "enhancement" it's likely blank and just waiting to be filled with a good summary. -Dan Veditz > > Each with its own history, perhaps. This allows one to quickly overlook > status (e.g. when a field is empty it means "we don't know yet") and > quickly understand the reason why the fix was made the way it was. > > Right now one has to look for this in comments and its hard. Sometimes > explanations are even missing and then we are stepping into darkness > when we need to change something or simply understand some older code. > > Having these fields would invite people to write these explanations and > sometimes doing it may (from my own experience) even help to produce > better patches. > > > That's it > > Thanks :) > -hb- > > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform > _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
