Hi, replying privately, because I want to expose some crazy idea I had a
long time and this seems like a good opportunity.
I miss two things in bugzilla from the developer point of view:
- when I use it as a tool to look into the code's history (understand
changes made in the past)
- and be able to quickly assess the state of a bug
I wanted to suggest (but never done that) to have specific fields (text
areas) in the bug form for following information:
- explanation of the cause of the defect or rational for the bug
- overview explanation of the fix for the defect (why this way); don't
interchange this with commit messages, this would be more of an overview
explanation
- steps to reproduce the defect
and maybe things like:
- known workaround
Each with its own history, perhaps. This allows one to quickly overlook
status (e.g. when a field is empty it means "we don't know yet") and
quickly understand the reason why the fix was made the way it was.
Right now one has to look for this in comments and its hard. Sometimes
explanations are even missing and then we are stepping into darkness
when we need to change something or simply understand some older code.
Having these fields would invite people to write these explanations and
sometimes doing it may (from my own experience) even help to produce
better patches.
That's it
Thanks :)
-hb-
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