Product organization in Bugzilla

Nate Graham nate at kde.org
Wed Sep 14 21:12:26 BST 2022


Hello folks,

We often get feedback from bug reporters that it's hard to find the 
right product in https://bugs.kde.org/enter_bug.cgi because it contains 
just a giant intimidating list.

Yes, people can use their browser's search function, and yes, if a bug 
is files in the wrong place, it will be moved to the right place. Still, 
I can't help but admit that this page is quite intimidating, and that 
intimidation may be a barrier to even trying. See 
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=340420.

With this in mind, I'd like to propose that we add some grouping on this 
page. Bugzilla provides this feature natively and other FOSS projects' 
Bugzilla instances make use it; see for example:
- https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/enter_bug.cgi
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/enter_bug.cgi

We could do the same, providing a few user-friendly groups for common 
software people use:

- KDE apps
- KDE Plasma Desktop
- KDE Plasma Mobile
- KDE Frameworks
- KDE Neon
- Something else (which would contain everything not in any of those groups)
- Unknown (which would lead to the generic "kde" component

(note: this suggestion is not a formal proposal set in stone, it's just 
an example of a system of grouping we could use)

Thoughts?

Nate


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