Combine simple and advanced bug-reporting forms (using Ajax)

Bug #89146 reported by Corey Burger
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Launchpad itself
Fix Released
Undecided
Gavin Panella

Bug Description

If you used AJAX for the bug filing form, showing options as they are entered, you wouldn't needn't two different but filing forms. Those who wanted the complicated form could simply just expand the arrows and fill in. Those who needed the handholding could have a little thing to explain what they needed to do, with each element opening as the previous was filled in.

(This would render bug 75977 obsolete.)

Tags: lp-bugs motu
Changed in malone:
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
description: updated
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Martin Pool (mbp) wrote : Re: Combine simple and "complicated" bug-reporting forms (using Ajax)

Does the advanced form also skip the check for similar bugs?

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Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote :

Yes. That's why we recommend it during periods when Launchpad is timing out frequently, because it doesn't try to generate that list. However, a combined form wouldn't fail so severely: it wouldn't show any suggestions, but you could still submit the report.

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Karl Fogel (kfogel) wrote :

(Note that bug #75977 is fixed now.)

Fixing this bug would help fix bug #243763 and bug #312885 as well.

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Martin Albisetti (beuno) wrote :

We have specific plans and mockups to get this done by 3.0.
I'll keep updating the bug as things start taking shape.

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Matthew Paul Thomas (mpt) wrote :

Fixed in r9364.

Changed in malone:
assignee: nobody → Gavin Panella (allenap)
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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