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Feature request #1225: Allow body-less issues?

Kind feature request
Product wincent.dev
When Created , updated
Status closed
Reporter Greg Hurrell
Tags no tags

Description

I remember watching a presentation about FogBugz where Joel showed how you could create new tickets with absolutely nothing filled in but the summary line. The idea was to lower the barrier to entry for getting issues into the system, and it made it a little easier to use the tracker as a "todo" list for absolutely everything, even the most trivial tasks.

Not sure whether this is a good idea, at least for non-admin users, but it might be worth considering allowing it for admin users.

I think my issue model requires a description in order to be valid, so I would either have to relax that requirement, or put in a special override just for admins, or automatically insert some placeholder text just for admins.

Will need to think about how to proceed, so I'm just going to leave this ticket open in the system for now.

Comments

  1. Greg Hurrell

    Status changed:

    • From: New
    • To: Open
  2. Greg Hurrell

    There are two options for how such body-less issues would be shown:

    • either omit the description entirely (from the "show" HTML template) and in the Atom feed where something is needed just repeat the summary as the description
    • or repeat the summary as the description (possibly in a "before validate" or "before save" hook)
  3. Greg Hurrell

    Ok, I've come to the following conclusions:

    • The description field is not always necessary
    • It therefore should not be included in validations
    • If it is not necessary there is no need to replicate across the summary field automatically
    • For consistency with the tags field, which displays "none" when there are no tags, the description field should also display "none" when there is no description (HTML view)
    • In the Atom feed, instead of "none" we will indeed autoreplicate
    • Even though the field is optional we do not actually want to encourage users to file issues without descriptions; as such we will not explicitly advertise it as "optional" (we don't want users filing useless issues because their summary is not detailed enough and they omit the description)
  4. Greg Hurrell

    Status changed:

    • From: Open
    • To: Closed
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