933253 - On duplicates.cgi, also display "Priority" column (and potentially drop "OS" column)

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Bugzilla :: Bugzilla-General, enhancement)

Description

[Andre Klapper]

Attachment: Simple patch

Upstreaming from https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56253

Not sure how controversial this is...

duplicates.cgi displays numerous columns, such as
 	Bug #
 	Dupe Count
 	Change in last 7 day(s)
 	Component
 	Severity
 	OS
 	Target Milestone
 	Summary

When trying to use the input of "most commonly reported duplicates" to influence Product Management, I've received the request to be able to quickly see if commonly reported issues (popular issues) already received a higher "Priority" value.

To not clutter the bug list with another entry, I am going to replace the "OS" column by "Priority" in our downstream Bugzilla.
If an issue is reported often it needs investigation anyway (e.g. on which OS it happens) so I'd expect PM to check the bug report details anyway. 
For the *overview* on duplicates.cgi, it feels more important to see the currently set Priority value instead.

If you disagree, another option is of course to just add another column "Priority" and keep "OS" still listed (though OS feels less important to me in most Bugzilla instances I am active in - also see bug 763409).

Comment 1

[Peter Retzer (:pretzer)]

Comment on attachment 825298 [details] [diff] [review]
Simple patch

Andre, in the future you should make sure to request review from an actual person, so it doesn't get lost. You can find suggested reviewers when you upload an attachment and click the 'suggested reviewers' link.

Comment 2

[Frédéric Buclin]

Comment on attachment 825298 [details] [diff] [review]
Simple patch

I'm not sure how important the priority field is in such a list, but certainly more useful than the OS one. r=LpSolit

Comment 3

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

yeah, agreed, most Bugzilla's I've seen pretty much ignore the OS field.  If someone does use it, it's easy enough to switch it back on their local install.

Comment 4

[Frédéric Buclin]

Committing to: bzr+ssh://[e-mail]/bugzilla/trunk/
modified template/en/default/reports/duplicates-table.html.tmpl
Committed revision 8887.