Design Discussion: A Process Question really

[purplecat]

I've picked a second bug to work on (2154) and I've realised there are basically two approaches to fixing it, one involves leaving the current interface as it is and building some (probably simple but potentially ugly) smarts into the code and the other involves getting a bit more info from the user up front.

So this is partly a question about which approach is preferable, but more generally a question about the appropriate place to have this kind of discussion. Should I use the comments in bugzilla, for instance? Similarly were I to pick the route that involved fiddling with the user interface, should screen shots of the potential new interface go into bugzilla for sign off (or review or ???) before a patch file is generated?

Comments

[kareila]

Asking for feedback in dw_dev will probably get more eyeballs than just using Bugzilla comments, but either method is fine. Asking around on IRC is also fine, although I personally am not in there much. Screenshots are probably a good idea for anything involving UI changes!

[azurelunatic]

No matter the actual forum that the discussion happens in, archiving notes about it in Bugzilla is probably appropriate. (Also, yay icon!)