Bugzilla Needs Wiki-fication
I've been bemoaning the inefficiencies of bugzilla of late, but the process of writing a dream spec for a window widget/environment left me with a solution: wiki'fication. Add wikimarkup iin bug comments and in a wikiWeb behind bugzilla's issue tracking system. Enable places for discussion behind the bug and fluid hyperlinking to design goals, usability tenets, etc. Given the rich process model behind issue tracking in Bugzilla, a semantic web approach is also of potential use. Bulleted lists could be tagged as priority lists attached to a bug or wikLink and merged with other lists of similar type. Comments could be tagged with intent in regard to bugs, supporting, negating, opining.An excellent case study is the choice of tab group behavior. My opinion is here.
Lots more links to flesh out this rant, but just in case you didn't click on the dream spec link, here are the two key innovations:
== velocity sensitive stacking operations ==
- Ala Minority Report with mouse input
== intelligent title bar positioning ==
- swap it vertically as window layout demands
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