I think it would be really helpful to try and recruit people to update issue summaries before commenting. Right now, it's sort of unclear who can update issue summaries and when they should be updated.

I think it would make sense to add a note in the comment form that says something like:

If you've taken the time to read and understand this issue, please consider updating the issue summary"

Thoughts?

Comments

dww’s picture

I've got mixed feelings on this.

Pro: yes, we should try to encourage that behavior. ;)

Con: more help text just makes the issue UI overwhelming and less likely that people read *any* of the descriptions. The recurring theme of Bojhan and yoroy's feedback to most of my proposed d.o-UI changes is "use less help text". This goes against that generally valid position.

So, I'm kinda ambivalent about this for now, and I'd be happy to be convinced by a solid argument in either direction. ;)

Thanks,
-Derek

lisarex’s picture

Ooh, if we all had lots of time we could A/B test to see whether the text results in more issues summaries being create or not.

Another option is to change the "Edit" label to "Edit issue summary".

dww’s picture

See also #1217286-60: Posting a comment changes too many issue node revision properties for some more UI thoughts on this whole mess. ;)

mgifford’s picture

Version: 6.x-3.x-dev » 7.x-3.x-dev
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Ok, this still needs to be implemented. We can grab the update code from:

all/modules/project_issue/project_issue.module
template_preprocess_project_issue_issue_update_link()
$variables['update_link'] = t('<a class="issue-button" href="@update">Update this issue</a>', array('@update' => $update_url));

Which adds to all/modules/project_issue/theme/project-issue-issue-update-link.tpl.php

all/modules/drupalorg/drupalorg_project/drupalorg_project.module
drupalorg_project_preprocess_comment_wrapper()
$variables['comment_form_title'] = t('Add new comment') . ' | ' . l(t('Update this issue'), $update_link);

Which adds to all/themes/bluecheese/tpl/comment-wrapper.tpl.php

I just updated one of them in this patch.

I do think that we could do simple a/b testing with 1 million users by simply doing even/odd. If we just apply one approach to odd users and keep the other the same and see if there is an up-take of participation.

We really need to be making these changes based on analytics.

drumm’s picture

Status: Active » Closed (works as designed)

With everything in the same form, there is less of a barrier to updating the issue summary today.