Malone should provide a guided bug form to reduce duplicate bug reports
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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Launchpad itself |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Brad Bollenbach |
Bug Description
Malone currently provides no (discoverable) help to the user filing a bug to avoid filing a bug that has already been reported.
To address this, Malone should provide a "guided" bug form that first asks the user for keywords describing their bug, and then tries to present bugs that are similar to let the user decide whether their report has already been filed.
Note to self: *discoverability* is a key here too. E.g. a "File a Bug" link that hides behind it the guided path to avoiding dups is not discoverable. A link that says "I want to report a bug (and first see if it's already been reported)" and "I want to report a bug (and I'm sure it hasn't already been reported)" would be better, but there are surely still better ways.
description: | updated |
Changed in malone: | |
assignee: | nobody → bradb |
status: | NeedInfo → Accepted |
Changed in malone: | |
assignee: | bradb → nobody |
Changed in malone: | |
assignee: | nobody → bradb |
Changed in malone: | |
status: | Confirmed → In Progress |
All default bug listings include bugs we consider unresolved, which right now means bugs with status NEW and ACCEPTED. If nobody objects, I'll add PENDINGUPLOAD to the unresolved statuses too.