Hei guys, and sorry for having forgotten Erics message too. I agree, we need to review the options for bug submission. I will see over the next days how to change that and what options for customization of the bug report tool we have.
thank you Stefan PS: If I haven't done something on it until end of next week, would somebody please remind me? Sunburned Surveyor wrote: > 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 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
