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

[Fraser Tweedale]

On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 09:23:50AM +0100, Martin Kosek wrote:
> 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

Thanks Martin, that does help.

I'll not remove the field just now but I will make a page on the
wiki about this.  There we can codify semantics of fields and common
tags, and indicate fields that are candidates for removal.

Cheers,

Fraser