Bug 589240 – Give a hint for a good subject line in bugzilla (solution included)

• Status: CONFIRMED
• Product: Gentoo Infrastructure

[Description Jonas Stein 2016-07-20 13:45:06 UTC]

Bugs about ebuilds should follow the scheme [1]
[name overlay] CATEGORY/PKG(-version(-revision)) - {problem description}/{action}

Many (new) users do not know about this handy rule. There are many bugs which are rewritten by bug wranglers afterwards. This consumes time which could be used for other things. 
I suggest to place the naming scheme on a prominent place in the bugzilla front end to reduce the number of bad subject lines. (Perhaps in the tooltip and the introduction text?)


[1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Bug-wranglers#Assessing_bug_reports

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Jonas Stein 2017-05-20 12:01:03 UTC]

Created attachment 473464 [details]
screenshot.png

We can use the text field and/or the tooltip.

[Comment 2 Jonas Stein 2017-05-20 12:51:01 UTC]

Idea by Leio: Use placeholder HTML attribute
https://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_input_placeholder.asp

[Comment 3 Jonas Stein 2017-05-20 20:16:27 UTC]

Perhaps this link helps to find the right configuration file:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=556145

[Comment 4 Jonas Stein 2017-05-28 18:49:15 UTC]

probably in template/en/default/bug/field.html.tmpl, you'll need to check that field.name == 'short_desc'