This being said, the bugtracker isn't very clear when it comes to ticket status. Currently the status is 'on_qa'. I guess if you use it a lot you're aware of it, but it strikes me as iffy UI.
It's exceptionally clear for anyone even remotely familiar with RHEL or Bugzilla. It's not mean for any joe's consumption anyway, this is a work tool used by developers and QE...
'exceptionally clear'? How do you detect that bug status from across the room? If that bug page was up on a big screen, how do you detect it's status? How do you tell at a glance from a meter away what the status is? All of those things should be doable for an 'exceptionally clear' status. Developers don't have mysteriously different visual capabilities from 'joes'.
this is a work tool used by developers and QE
Because as we all know, developers don't benefit from good UIs. One wonders why they would use a webpage at all, rather than simply connect to an ncurses-based bugtracker that only supports an 80x24 terminal.
I don't understand why I'm getting pounded by downvoters. First someone tells me that a small-typeface 'status' is 'exceptionally clear' and UI doesn't really matter for developers. Next I'm told that in order to detect something from across the room, I have to click through a link.
I realise my comment was snarky, but both of these responses were in a patronising tone themselves. Does bugzilla have some sort of rabid fanbase akin to the vim/emacs wars?
Keep in mind that I did not say anything like 'terrible' or 'worst ever'. I said 'iffy'. I also obviously know where to find the state, because I mentioned it in my original comment.
In return I got that it was 'exceptionally clear' (which it clearly isn't, given there's a few people in this thread that missed it); that UI doesn't matter for developers; a possible insinuation that I don't know the kind of tools devs use; and a follow-up comment that tells me I need to know my tools but then proceeds to completely ignore the use-case it explicitly quoted when telling me what I should do. I don't know how that second one can be seen as anything but patronising.
Continuing on with the theme, your point still doesn't answer any of the issues I had in my downmodded comment regarding what is 'exceptionally clear'. Can you tell at a glance from a meter away? My point isn't about the existence of a field, but its presentation.
If you don't think the UI is iffy, that's fine, we disagree. But let's not make up nonsense about things like devs not benefiting from good UI or offering solutions that don't match the quoted use-case.
> (which it clearly isn't, given there's a few people in this thread that missed it)
I feel this is more due to many people wanting to look at the bug itself, instead of its metadata (due to the title of the link)
> Can you tell at a glance from a meter away?
I seriously can't tell anything that isn't colored, I do not have any idea what is the concept of distanced vision, (short sighted, glasses still make things fuzzy)
I would wonder if the status in all bugzilla implementations would warrant viewable-at-a-meter, I personally find the presentation fine though: it is the first thing I see other than the title, unless I'm specifically not looking for it.
You are being down voted because you are complaining about something which isn't relevant. Complaining about bugzillas UI not being pretty and clear from across the room really isn't relevant to the issue or bugzillas purpose whatsoever.
