Bug heat display on bug page looks to be associated with the user

[James Westby]

When I first saw the flames on a bug page I couldn't work out what they
were for (tooltip bug). Seeing

  Bug #NNNNN reported by Person 20 hours ago <Flames>

suggested to me that they were something to do with the person.

Reading it now I realise the whole line is information about the bug, but having
little separation between the person's name and the flames isn't great.

I would suggest something like:

  Bug #NNNNN reported by Person 20 hours ago
  Bug heat: <Flames>

Thanks,

James

[Eleanor Berger (intellectronica)]

James, do you think providing a tooltip would alleviate the problem? I'm inclined to try that first, before moving heat to a new line.

[Eleanor Berger (intellectronica)]

I am marking the bug INCOMPLETE to indicate that we're still discussing how to fix it, but I do think there's overall agreement that we need a way to make heat on the bug page less confusing and more self-explanatory.

[James Westby (james-w)]

On Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:36:33 -0000, Tom Berger <email address hidden> wrote:
> James, do you think providing a tooltip would alleviate the problem? I'm
> inclined to try that first, before moving heat to a new line.

Oh, I think a tooltip would definitely help work out what it is. There
may be no problem after that, but I was going on my first impression, so
it will be hard to judge whether it is wholly better.

Thanks,

James

[Deryck Hodge (deryck)]

Let's assume the tooltip fixes this problem, i.e. the icons with some context explanation makes this problem go away.

I will mark this as a duplicate of bug 513219 for that reason, but if the end result is that this doesn't help, we can certainly undupe this bug and reconsider the issue then.

Cheers,
deryck