2007/10/3, Mackenzie Morgan <macoafi@xxxxxxxxx>: > > > On 10/3/07, Christian Robottom Reis <kiko@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 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. Indeed. > > 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. Note that any html element can have a title attribute which appears in FF as a tooltip. So hovering over the label for a radio button would display a brief description. -- Kit BLAKE · Infrae · http://infrae.com/ + 31 10 243 7051 Hoevestraat 10 · 3033 GC · Rotterdam + The Netherlands OpenPGP 0xE67AD0F2 · Contact = http://xri.net/=kitblake
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