Minutes of our last Bugzilla meeting

Gervase Markham gerv at mozilla.org
Mon Jul 16 12:41:42 UTC 2007


Frédéric Buclin wrote:
> * Since we released Bugzilla 3.0, many people are complaining about the
> new UI in show_bug.cgi, especially about fieldsets. Maybe should we
> propose a competition to redesign Bugzilla? 

That is a terrible idea, at least if the results of the competition are 
in any way binding. Mozilla had a competition to design a throbber way 
back when, and ended up with something that looked cool for exactly five 
minutes and terrible thereafter.

IMO, this is precisely the wrong way to do UI design.

Gerv



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