192017 - Enhance Component description

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Bugzilla :: Creating/Changing Bugs, enhancement)

Description

[Ralf Hauser]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030114
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3b) Gecko/20030114

Only once a bug is posted, I can see
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/describecomponents.cgi?product=
It would be great to have a link to this also at the time of posting the bug
(such that I can easily do an "open-in-new window").

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

From the bug entry form:

Component   	

The area where the problem occurs. To pick the right component, you could use
the same one as similar bugs you found in your search, or read the full list of
component descriptions if you need more help.

"component descriptions" is linked.  If you click on it, you get the page you're
looking for.

Comment 2

[Ralf Hauser]

Great, it appears that we are just in the transition, sometimes, I get the form
you are referring to, sometimes, there is a shorter one without the link. If the
one you are referring to is the newer one, great - resolved. Thx.

Comment 3

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

The text I quoted is off the long (guided) form.  The short (advanced) form has
the title for the Components listbox linked, just like it is on the show_bug form.

Comment 4

[Ralf Hauser]

Dave, just trying to get smarter in my bug-posting.
Looking at http://lxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/webtools/bugzilla/enter_bug.cgi
where would I find how to force the form to be shown to me in the
short/"advanced" form you mention?

Comment 5

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

if you're on your own system's Bugzilla, it should be the default when you go
into enter_bug.cgi, after choosing the product.

mozilla.org has it rigged (custom hack on their site, so it's not in the cvs
source) so that you can't get to the advanced form unless you have canconfirm privs.