As a user of the Second Life issue tracker (jira) who often sorts or searches through others' issues, I'd like people creating or editing issues to place the (sometimes lengthy) user stories into the *Description* field, /not/ the *Summary* field. /The summary should be as short as possible/ while still conveying what the issue is about. The role for whom the issue matters (i.e. "As a ..., I ...") and the specifics of the motivation / reason for the issue are important when examining a single issue, but aren't too helpful when looking for duplicates of other issues or when searching for already existing issues of a wish or problem you have.
Even worse, because the space for displaying the summary is very limited in some of the greenhopper views, you often only see the "As a ..." part while the rest gets cut off, so you can't tell at one glance what an issue being discussed is about at all. Think of an issue as a little book. The story you want to tell belongs to the inside (the description). On the cover (summary), you want the story's title (catchy and ideally different from the title of other books), not the first chapter. What do you think? Cheers, Boroondas
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