patch flag for attachments not indicated as optional
Bug #298099 reported by
Brian Murray
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Launchpad itself |
Fix Released
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High
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Abel Deuring | ||
Bug Description
When adding an attachment to a bug report the attachment field is shown as option and so is the description. However, there is no indication at the checkbox "This attachment is a patch" is optional so it may be checked erroneously by people adding attachments to a bug report. This can then have the affect of adding noise to searches for bugs with attachments.
| tags: | added: patch-tracking |
| Changed in malone: | |
| status: | New → Triaged |
| importance: | Undecided → High |
| tags: | added: story-patch-project |
| tags: |
added: story-patch-report removed: story-patch-project |
Revision history for this message
| Karl Fogel (kfogel) wrote | #1 |
Revision history for this message
| Abel Deuring (adeuring) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in malone: | |
| status: | Triaged → Fix Committed |
| Changed in malone: | |
| milestone: | none → 10.02 |
| tags: | removed: story-patch-report |
| Changed in malone: | |
| assignee: | nobody → Abel Deuring (adeuring) |
| Changed in malone: | |
| status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
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As mentioned in bug #172501 (comment #8), a way to make this less error prone would be:
- Add a confirmation step when the attachment does not look like a patch.
- Change the text to "this attachment contains a solution (patch) for this bug" or something like that, and have the word "patch" link to a page explaining what a patch is and that more reproduction information (like a screenshot or crash report) is not a patch.