[drupal-devel] two minor usability issues, introduced recently

Bèr Kessels berdrupal at tiscali.be
Sun Sep 25 18:30:58 UTC 2005


Very often a simple screenshot gets interesting people involved. 
I agree that usability people are often not interested into patching, testing 
code etc. 
A screenhost can save me often half an hour fiddling, when I could have 
commented on a screenshot in five minutes. 

Ber


On Sunday 25 September 2005 17:27, Gerhard Killesreiter wrote:
> On Sun, 25 Sep 2005, Kobus Myburgh wrote:
> > 1. Set up a site based on HEAD.
> > 2. Assign a technical person to update and maintain it.
> > 3. When an update is applied (patch or other), simply add/update the a
> > "changelog" or "issue" or something. 4. When a usability person analyzes
> > the change, he documents it accordingly on the same issue. 5. Developers
> > read the usability person's report and change the code if necessary. 6.
> > Usability testers get access to test all new aspects of the
> > page/page/feature/whatever. 7. Of course the database might need to be
> > refreshed now and then.
>
> I've taken another approach with one of my patches: Upload patched
> files. Got me some feedback I wouldn't have got otherwise. As long as
> not db change is involved this should be a simpler solution. Even if db
> changes are involved one could create a small test db.
>
> Cheers,
>  Gerhard



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