Following a suggestion from Mark H., a MediaWiki extension should be written and installed that allows users to report software problems in a clean, easy-to-use interface.
Version: unspecified
Severity: enhancement
URL: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Entomology
(In reply to comment #1)
Report to where? Bugzilla?
Or have its own database. I imagine any wizard will lead to a lot of false positives, so it probably makes sense to have a wall in between a wizard for the general community and the tracker that developers use. But maybe directly interfacing with Bugzilla makes more sense. That's for the extension author to debate and decide.
I would imagine any sort of simplified reporting mechanism would be best put into a separate area in BZ (e.g. a new project category). Those issues would then be moved into the area currently used by developers as part of the triage process.
It wouldn't need to be a separate database, but could be effectively treated as one.
(In reply to comment #3)
It wouldn't need to be a separate database, but could be effectively treated as
one.
I'll refrain from using Bugzilla as a discussion forum. I've added some notes about this idea (and more specifically about the advantages I see to using a separate database) here: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Entomology.
Please feel free to edit that page or its talk page.
For now we can grub mozilla's wizard for on-bugzilla workflow:
https://bzr.mozilla.org/bmo/4.0/files/head:/extensions/GuidedBugEntry/
Lowest priority until someone volunteers to work on this (and defines the actual problem to solve).