Comment 1 for bug 54652
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| Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote Re: Add a "workaround" field to bug | #1 |
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This would help the bug database become more useful as a knowledge base. But I think including any workaround in the Description field would work just as well. Having a separate field wouldn't help people find workarounds in bug listings: some people would keep including workarounds in comments (just as they currently use comments for things that should ideally be part of the description), and conversely people would often forget (or not bother) to blank the workaround field after further discussion revealed that the proposed workaround didn't work.
Benefit #3 could also be achieved by tweaking the caption for the Description field.