Eric posted some suggestions to improve the way we categorize our bugs a few days ago. I wanted to repost it and see if any of our programmers had comments on the suggestion:
The Sunburned Surveyor Eric wrote: go to openump at sourceforge and select 'submit new bug' and look at the 'category' pull-down menu selections. in this menu the user has: interface jts misc. openjump plugin wfsplugin the above selections serve no useful purpose for the average user, who in all likeliness will be reporting the majority of the problems/bugs. this means it serves little purpose for those who may work on correcting the problem. bug/ticket reporting should be designed for the end user, not the programmer. the association however is what is important to the programmer, and making sure that the ticket that was reported is associated with the correct page/portion/snippet of code that in fact is responsible. this means each source code document should have a plain english reference in it(commented out), or multiple references throughout the document as is needed/warranted. imo, the easiest and best way to do this is by using the gui elements, such as menu items, icon/button items, and contextual menu items as the means of reference. thus, if i was using oj, and encountered a bug, or have an idea of how something could work better(feature request), the oj repo should offer me the following when i am submitting a ticket: Submit New Ticket: pull-down menu #1: bug minor(does not work correctly) medium(works intermittently) major(does not work) feature request core plug-in spelling correction menus help operations appearance menu icon layout pull-down menu #2: vista xp os x linux pull-down menu #3: File Edit View Layer Tools Queries Spatial Query Attribute Query Simple Query Analysis Generate Warp Edit Geometry QA Edit Attributes Generalization Measure in Feet Customize Scripting Image Plugins QA Window Help ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Jump-pilot-devel mailing list Jump-pilot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/jump-pilot-devel
