Bugzilla UI hackathon #1: July 29; attachments

[Luis Villa]

On 7/23/05, Myk Melez <myk at mozilla.org> wrote:
> Damien Miller wrote:
> > One thing I hack into OpenSSH's bugzilla is a message above the comment
> > entry box: "Do not enter patches, source code or long debug traces here.
> > Please use the Attachments feature instead."
> >
> > This is borne of frustration of users pasting huge gobs of text into
> > comments, especially patches. Could you please consider adding a similar
> > message, or perhaps a automatic warning if a comment is over a certain
> > number of lines?
> That's a good idea.  I bet we could count lines (or characters, more
> likely) with a JavaScript event handler and display a warning if the
> comment gets too long.

As long as it is easy to disable or modify. At b.g.o we require people
to put traces into the body of the bug because they aren't searchable
otherwise.

Luis