On my screen at least I can't see the description field without scrolling down. I have no idea what can and can't be done with JIRA but anything that makes it visible again without scrolling has my +1.
Le ven. 8 juin 2018 à 14:24, David Smiley <[email protected]> a écrit : > Many of us have accidentally added a long-form description of our JIRA > issues into the Environment field of JIRA instead of the Description. I > think we can agree this is pretty annoying. It seems to have been > happening more lately with a change to JIRA that for whatever reason has > made it more visually tempting to start typing there. I want to arrange > for some sort of fix with infra. I'm willing to work with them to explore > what can be done. But what should we propose infra do exactly? I'd like > to get a sense of that here with our community first. > > IMO, I don't think a dedicated Environment input field is useful when > someone could just as easily type anything pertinent into the description > field of a bug report. Less input fields means a simpler JIRA UI -- a good > thing IMO. But since it's been used in the past, it may be impossible to > actually remove it while keeping the text on old issues. Nonetheless I'm > ambivalent if it were to be outright removed and others here want this > since I think it's of such low value that data loss wouldn't bother me. > > Can it be retained as a purely read-only on display but otherwise can't > edit? I'd like that. > > Perhaps the path of least change and thus "safest" path is for it to be > removed from the "Create Issue" screen, yet retain it on other screens for > those that are fans of adding/editing it? > > ~ David > -- > Lucene/Solr Search Committer, Consultant, Developer, Author, Speaker > LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/davidwsmiley | Book: > http://www.solrenterprisesearchserver.com >
