Comment 3 for bug 54359

On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 04:48:39AM -0000, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
> And just to start what will hopefully not be heavy use of comparisons
> between Launchpad and Google Code Hosting, :-) Google doesn't let you
> enter labels when entering a bug report even though they use labels for
> prioritization.

Actually you can. I took some time today playing around with it today.
If you're a project owner or member the form to report issues look a bit
different. (As shown in the attached screenshot.)
flickr.com too let you add tags when uploading photos.

>
> Can you give some examples of how it would be useful to add tags when
> reporting a bug?

When I reported this bug, I previously reported three other bugs that I wanted
to add tags to, and had to follow the workflow:
1. Report the bug;
2. Edit its description to add tags.

Between steps 1 and 2 I had to click around the UI many times and found this
an annoyance. It'd be much easier to accomplish that only on one step.

An useful example of tags are to arbitrarily group bugs of a given category.
For instance, if I'm reporting bugs in the UI, I'd like to add a tag
to it saying that it's UI related, that way our UI expert could find all of
them easily. If I have to go thru lots of clicks to do that I just won't bother,
and we'll lose some extra metadata that users are willing to add to the bug.

Make sense?

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Diogo M. Matsubara