Closed Bug 36525 Opened 24 years ago Closed 18 years ago

Auto-query of bugs before committing a bug report

Categories

(Bugzilla :: Creating/Changing Bugs, enhancement, P3)

enhancement

Tracking

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RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 22353

People

(Reporter: boris.povazay, Assigned: myk)

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Details

Split up the description window for a new bug into following parts:

Reproduce:
Actual result:
Expected result:
Proposed fix:

(seen at messages from ducarroz@netscape.com)
This could help bug-reporters to specify what is needed. (Especially newbies, 
like me... P-)  )

It might also be usefull if these parameters would initiate an auto-query 
(before the bug gets submitted) to stop bugs of becoming duplicate entries.
http://www.mozilla.org/quality/help/bug-form.html
does this.  Is this what you had in mind?
i think what he's looking for is the same kind of mechanism that cvs uses on 
commitinfo. that if a new bug has a description that doesn't a particular 
template, that the new bug entry fails until he uses the standard one. OR, that 
the initial bug entry form have a default template.

both are good suggestions. 
Assignee: tara → cyeh
Well - yes and no - the explicit step to search for a bug should be ommited, 
since the entry afterwards does particulary the same. So the first part of the 
description should be used to look for similar bugs (which would reduce the 
work of the developers - there simply would be less duplicate bugs).
In the second step there could be a listing of similar bugs. (from which an old 
bug could be chosen and commented - think of other ways to reproduce or other 
OpSys)
Only when the bug really is a new one a new bug-file should be opened.

So the current form is good, but only a step to the final solution!
BTW the forme might be condensed to 1-2 pages!
Target Milestone: --- → Future
Taking all of cyeh's Bugzilla bugs.
Assignee: Chris.Yeh → justdave
-> Bugzilla product
Assignee: justdave → myk
Component: Bugzilla → Creating/Changing Bugs
Product: Webtools → Bugzilla
Version: other → unspecified
Blocks: 65929
Summary: Better standard description and auto-query of bugs → Auto-query of bugs before committing a bug report
QA Contact: mattyt-bugzilla → default-qa
Target Milestone: Future → ---

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 22353 ***
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 18 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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