Launchpad bug statuses

[Mackenzie Morgan]

On 10/3/07, Christian Robottom Reis <kiko at async.com.br> wrote:

> I question whether any bug status will ever be self-explanatory. The
> fact that they need to be short means that there will always be some
> ambiguity in them, and the best we can do is document, teach and guide
> people into doing the right thing.
>
> I have been toying for a long time with the idea that a status dropdown
> is actually not the best way to guide people to using statuses properly.
> I just haven't summoned up the guts to try and push this through while
> getting flamed to death <wink>.
> --
> Christian Robottom Reis | http://async.com.br/~kiko/ | [+55 16] 3376 0125


Perhaps a series of radio buttons with sentences next to them so that
whoever is triaging understands what each button means.  The status they
output would be the one or two word statuses that the developers are used
to, but the users would be picking the right status to begin with.


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