Last modified: 2013-12-03 21:15:07 UTC
Currently, bugs about Flow are shelved under Mediawiki extensions, unlike e.g. VisualEditor or less important things like QRpedia. Considering the probable serious influx of Flow bugs in the near future, I would propose that it gets its own "level", so that e.g. in the search box it is selectable (I mean that if you select "search bugs" on the left side, under "Product", you should be able to choose "Flow" directly.
Flow is technically speaking an extension, and Bugzilla's taxomony is not primarily based on visibility. (However there have been exceptions from rules, e.g. when the codebase is rather complex and requires subcomponents, like in case of VisualEditor.)
So, translated, "fuck everyone wanting to find something, Bugzilla is not for you"? Very user-friendly reply. What's the advantage of keeping Flow buried among the other extensions like "AbsenteeLandlord", "Desysop", and so on? I hope yu will reconsider once you get lots of Flow bugs here, which will probably be soon.
I wouldn't translate it to that, however Bugzilla is primarily a tool for developers and tech-savvy users (though I try to make it more user-friendly, e.g. by the guided bug entry form which is now linked from the very top of https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=Wikimedia since yesterday). If you don't feel comfortable on https://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi and don't know that Flow is a "MediaWiki extension" (and can be found under that product), http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Flow and especially https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Flow_Portal#Contact_and_links provide links how to provide feedback and also where exactly to find and create new bug reports or feature requests. Furthermore, once Flow has seen wider deployment, I expect the Flow team and involved Communication folks to set up similar Feedback channels like for VisualEditor at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WP:VE/F which do not necessarily require to interact with Bugzilla.
Yeah, sorry about my earlier remark, I was pissed off at a WMF representative (for a oomment made at Mediawiki, not on Bugzilla) and your comment came for me at the wrong time. I shouldn't have replied so strongly. I still think it isn't user friendly to not have it separately, but I appreciate that you try to make it easier for everyone involved anyway.
