[Meego-qa] Bugzilla changes for tablet user experience open sourcing

[Shane Bryan]

On Fri, 1 Apr 2011 10:06:51 +0800
"Wan, Shuang" <shuang.wan at intel.com> wrote:

> 2.       Old "Platform" is renamed to Profile. This is to make the
> field name more meaningful to reflect the value list Handset, Tablet
> etc belong to;

I thought I saw this on Friday... seems to be gone again?

> 3.       New field "Platform" is created to record hardware platform
> information in bug report.

Seems there are some missing key values still needed.  None of the
Handset platforms exist.

Moreover, there seems to be a mixing of "platform" and "product" names
in the list, which will be confusing for many, since, for example,
multiple products can be built from/on the *same* platform.

See BMC# 15148 that I opened for this:
https://bugs.meego.com/show_bug.cgi?id=15148

> Welcome your feedbacks and suggestions!

Other things I noticed this morning that are new and as yet unannounced
or explained on any ML I've found yet...

On any BMC detail view:

- Risk Level:
  * What is the purpose and definitions of "Red", "Yellow"
  and "Green".
  * Under what conditions do they apply and what factors
  into determining if the current Risk Level is "Yellow" vs. "Red".
  * Who has rights to change it?
  * When is it set and reviewed?
  * Who owns keeping up to date?

- UX Status:
  * Pretty much the same questions as above

- Architecture:
  * Seems to have disappeared, or it is now combined with "Platform" (or
    is that what is supposed to read "Profile"?)?

- Some explanation of the newly added work effort metrics is probably
  needed, esp for those new to them.
  * When do these need to be used, and when is it optional?

On the search form (https://bugs.meego.com/query.cgi)

- Missing "Profile"
- Missing "Platform"
- Missing "Architecture" (Seems to be "OS", but that's not accurate
  really)
- Missing "Risk Level"
- Missing "UX Status"
- "Hardware" needs to be renamed "Profile" (I'm guessing)?
- "OS" needs to be renamed "Architecture" (I'm guessing)?

New bug entry form does not reflect any of the above changes or
new/redefined fields yet either. (https://bugs.meego.com/enter_bug.cgi)

I general, the changes being seen right now seem to either be
incompletely rolled out, or not completely thought out.  Even worse, it
seems there has been no discussion of these changes *before* they
happened, providing the rational, justification, use cases, and impact
to developers and QA in their day to day activities.

Regards,

Shane...