294514 - Reporter should warn if someone forgets to choose "problem type"

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Other Applications Graveyard :: Reporter, defect)

Description

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

repro
1.start reporter
2.fill report
3.write email address

hit enter

result, the report can not be submitted, only cancelled

Comment 1

[Peter van der Woude [:Peter6]]

forget comment #0

oops, my bad forgot to change "problem type" into something usefull
changing summary

->Reporter should warn if someone forgets to choose "problem type"

1.start reporter
2.type report but forget "problem type"
3.gee, the report won't go and i have no idea why.

Comment 2

[James Ross]

I think it should also stop you submitting a report without a description. See
http://reporter.mozilla.org/app/report/?report_id=RMO11170694912061 for why. :)

Comment 3

[Robert Accettura [:raccettura]]

The problem with enforcing a description is it's pointless.  No reason why a
user can't just ender 'asdfjkl;' and submit that.

We can do it for problem type, since that's a hardcoded list.  

Yes, there are already 1 or 2 abusing with bogus reports.  I think if it keeps
up we'll either start blocking (if really necessary), or I'll set it up so
people can report bogus reports, and we'll easily be able to delete them.

We'll see how it goes.

Comment 4

[Robert Accettura [:raccettura]]

This is going to be a WONTFIX.  

We've got about 20k reports showing this isn't confusing many (if any) people.

Descriptions will continue to be optional.  We want the user to do minimal work to help us.  If they want to go the extra mile.... we provide the space for them to do so.