Bug or Suggestion

Dreamwidth has a few workflows for submitting items to Bugzilla. The ideal workflow to use depends on the exact situation.

Suggestion

Dreamwidth solicits a wide range of user opinions on many proposed changes before approving an item for implementation. A relatively small percentage of the active user population of Dreamwidth is comfortable using Bugzilla, compared to the users who follow the dw_suggestions community.

The following types of changes are particularly likely to be referred to the whole user community (not just staff, contractors, and developers) for discussion:

New Feature

An entirely new feature that does not currently exist.

Enhancement

Changes to improve an existing feature.

Preferred Implementation

Some new features, enhancements, and outright bug fixes require a decision about how best to do it out of two or more possible ways. The dw_suggestions participants can also provide feedback for this.

Bug

• Something that is broken (not functioning as designed).
• Something that is broken-as-designed (is functioning as designed, but how it is designed is bad), and the fix is unambiguous and does not require community discussion. (Example: a site image that lacks an alt tag and really needs one.)
• Straightforward items that do not require community discussion.