300436 - bug description should not link to voters

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Bugzilla :: User Interface, defect)

Description

[Mikel Ward]

On the "Show Votes" page, there is a check box to vote/unvote for a bug, a bug
number which is a link to the bug, and the bug's description which is a link to
a list of users who have voted for a bug.

The bug description being a link to the users who have voted for a bug is the
wrong idea.  It's highly confusing and inconsitent with the whole idea of
hyperlinks.  You expect that a link will lead to what its title or description
suggests.  In this case, the link should lead to the bug, not the users who have
voted on it.

I'm not sure if this is a deliberate (yet poorly thought out) shortcut, or
whether this is accidental, in the same way as bug 97590.  See also bug 117760.

If there is truely a need for a quick way to access the list of voters for a
particular bug (i.e. assuming clicking on the bug link then on "Show votes for
this bug" isn't quick enough), then it should be added in a far more obvious way.

Perhaps an extra column either displaying the total number of bugs as a link to
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/votes.cgi?action=show_bug&bug_id=[bugno] would work
better.  Even easier to implement would be an extra column with a link with the
title "votes", "voters", or "show votes".

Comment 1

[Paul]

Attachment: made what you're linking to clearer

Comment 2

[Frédéric Buclin]

Comment on attachment 234863 [details] [diff] [review]
made what you're linking to clearer

I wonder how it looks like if Voters was on its own column. Anyway, this UI is better than the current one. r=LpSolit

Comment 3

[Frédéric Buclin]

Checking in template/en/default/bug/votes/list-for-user.html.tmpl;
/cvsroot/mozilla/webtools/bugzilla/template/en/default/bug/votes/list-for-user.html.tmpl,v  <--  list-for-user.html.tmpl
new revision: 1.24; previous revision: 1.23
done