[Freeipa-devel] Meaning of "Needs UI design" field in Trac?

[Martin Kosek]

On 11/24/2014 08:39 AM, Fraser Tweedale wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> The precise meaning and usage of the "Needs UI design" field in Trac
> is not clear to me.  It has five values:
> 
> - <blank>
> - Not needed
> - Review
> - Consult
> - Design
> 
> What is the purpose of this field and the meanings of the different
> values?  And a more general question: is there a resource anywhere
> that explains the various fields in the FreeIPA Trac?

Hi Fraser,

The addition Trac ticket metadata are usually added quite organically, as they
are needed. I am not aware of a page that would describe them. If the field is
not clear just from the description, it means it is possibly badly designed :-)

Needs UI design in particular was used to select tickets that needs, well, UI
review from UX specialist.

But given it is not used on a frequent basis
(https://fedorahosted.org/freeipa/query?uxd=!&uxd=!Not+needed&status=assigned&status=new&status=reopened&order=priority&col=id&col=summary&col=status&col=type&col=priority&col=milestone&col=component)
I would personally just remove it and use keyword for this one time usage (like
"ux-required") to make tickets smaller.

HTH,
Martin