Last modified: 2011-06-23 20:23:04 UTC
Where are the simple help items? First: Why is help listed in an obscure spot on the left of the page. Normally 'Help' is on the top of a page to the far right. Second: When I did go to 'help' I would have to learn an entire new vocabulary to know the meaning of the categories. I suppose that the help is helpful to insiders, but it is useless for the casual editor. Third: Even the 'keywords' field of this form is unintuitive. I naively entered 'Help Pages' believing that a tag belonged in that field. I was directed to a list of acceptable keywords. If it is a finite group, why are they not in a drop down box? The list was unintuitive, Acai? Citron? are you kidding? Maybe someone knows the difference between them as usability releases. I don't. And to enter a simple comment, I am not interested in learning.
(In reply to comment #0) > Where are the simple help items? > First: Why is help listed in an obscure spot on the left of the page. Normally > 'Help' is on the top of a page to the far right. > I have no real opinion on this. I think it's just fine near the top on the left, but I wouldn't care if it was moved. I don't click it anyway. > Second: When I did go to 'help' I would have to learn an entire new vocabulary > to know the meaning of the categories. I suppose that the help is helpful to > insiders, but it is useless for the casual editor. > > Third: Even the 'keywords' field of this form is unintuitive. I naively > entered 'Help Pages' believing that a tag belonged in that field. I was > directed to a list of acceptable keywords. If it is a finite group, why are > they not in a drop down box? The list was unintuitive, Acai? Citron? are you > kidding? Maybe someone knows the difference between them as usability > releases. I don't. And to enter a simple comment, I am not interested in > learning. These are upstream issues, adding said keyword.
Bugmeister is the new Bugzilla maintainer and default assignee.
WONTFIX: (In reply to comment #0) > Where are the simple help items? > First: Why is help listed in an obscure spot on the left of the page. Normally > 'Help' is on the top of a page to the far right. It is current in the left sidebar where the other common links are ("new bug", "search bug") it seems logical in that location. > Second: When I did go to 'help' I would have to learn an entire new vocabulary > to know the meaning of the categories. I suppose that the help is helpful to > insiders, but it is useless for the casual editor. Those help pages are written by the BZ team so it's not really something we can do/fix inside BZ but we could do a simple set on wiki if someone really desired. > Third: Even the 'keywords' field of this form is unintuitive. I naively > entered 'Help Pages' believing that a tag belonged in that field. I was > directed to a list of acceptable keywords. If it is a finite group, why are > they not in a drop down box? The list was unintuitive, Acai? Citron? are you > kidding? Maybe someone knows the difference between them as usability > releases. I don't. And to enter a simple comment, I am not interested in > learning. 4.0 now has drop down of possible keywords which imho is worse for new people. Although how did you find that list was unintuitive, the list (https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/describekeywords.cgi) gave a description of what the keywords were for.
