On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 8:28 AM, Dan Harrop-Griffiths <d...@canonical.com> wrote: > RE: Bug titles > > I think the key issue here is writing better bug titles, keeping them > as short as they need to be. Perhaps some tips on writing more concise > titles is something that could be added to the wiki. > > Dan
That is dependent on our users working harder - something we cannot control. There are, today, 400K bugs with titles longer than 48 characters. Showing those is an *existing* issue, and we would need to justify the human cost of fixing those 400K vs showing them gracefully : that cost comes from our users, and I would expect resentment and push-back unless they feel they are getting something for their effort. Certainly, we could say 'fix your bugs to make them show nicely in our system', but I question whether that is a good idea: given that folk want to be reasonably expressive. I often have trouble describing a *function* in 70 characters (python doctring), let alone a one-line summary of a complex fault interacting with multiple difference components. I'm not arguing for arbitrary length bug titles: but I do think that the length of bug titles today is not happenstance, nor arbitrary. I think for most (e.g. 95% or 99%) it is a combination of: - friction where our UI shows things poorly (drives shorter than some N characters) - need to express the issue (drives longer lengths) And for the rest its just insanity ;) -Rob _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev Post to : launchpad-dev@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
