The Help -> Report Bug or Enhancement is effectively useless

[merks]

It's empty:

so not only kind of unless, it creates a bad impression:

https://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/mv/msg/1114126/1862577/#msg_1862577

[nitind]

Perhaps the relevant UI contribution shouldn't enable unless a provider is installed?

[BeckerFrank]

@merks , @nitind : Currently there is only one provider in org.eclipse.mylyn.bugzilla.ide (see the definition of the extension point in plugin.xml).
The way this is implemented allows us to disable the action if no providers are defined. But this code is called too late, so you have to select the action and then get an information dialog with the text "The chosen operation is not enabled". Is this a better solution?

[merks]

Anything that's in the menu and looks inviting but then is useless is probably going to make people shake their heads...

[BeckerFrank]

Anything that's in the menu and looks inviting but then is useless is probably going to make people shake their heads...

This is only useless as long as you not install the Bugzilla feature. In the plugin.xml are the following Products defines

If you select one you end up with a new Bugzilla Ticket and prefilled some fields.

Should we

• remove this complete
• add a similar function to GitHub and later GitLab connector if possible

[ruspl-afed]

There should be a special table item "Install more providers... ", acting as a launcher for install action

[merks]

@jonahgraham Given bugzilla at eclipse is on the way out, we should not have the in packages if it typically useless.

[jonahgraham]

+1 to removing it - I will create a bug to review and figure out how to remove from EPP if it is still there later in the release cycle. eclipse-packaging/packages#102

FWIW it is equally as dated as the Help -> Contribute that directs to https://www.eclipse.org/contribute/ which is mostly simply dated. eclipse-packaging/packages#103

[ruspl-afed]

Why bugzilla outage should be a reason to remove this functionality at all? Let's reroute it to GitHub and GitLab where Eclipse projects are hosted now, as suggested by @BeckerFrank above.

[merks]

We only mention that because the comment was that bugzilla was the only provider. If there is GitHub/GitLab that would be helpful!

[mjmeijer]

From memory when I was contributing to Mylyn more actively:
User Story/Case:
Any plugin can define an extension point (have to look up which one) that specifies the bug/issue tracker where tickets/bugs can be opened. Then when said plugin dumps an error in the Error Log, selecting the error and selecting the context menu should allow one to report the log message and some extra information as a bug in the appropriate issue tracker, auto-checking for duplicates first. Hence the stacktrace search as that is deemed a sufficiently unique identifier of the error.

The Goal was/is to make it easier for people to report issues and allow a more data driven approach to bug fix prioritization.
This scaffolding provided by the Mylyn ecosystem with the example implementations should be retained in my view.
This provides tremendous time savings for testers and early adopters of new software in the Mylyn ecosystem.
Hope I can find the time to dig in the old docs and do a write up.

As intermediaire solution:
Remove from Help menu, retain UI in ErrorLog context menu and update code to point to new issue trackers.
Add functionality to GitHub and GitLab issue trackers

[ruspl-afed]

@jonahgraham I did a reroute for Mylyn, Platform and PDE from Bugzilla to GitHub and this is a part of Mylyn 4.2.0 M2 contribution to SimRel.
Perhaps it can commute the sentence from EPP side.

[jonahgraham]

Perhaps it can commute the sentence from EPP side.

Yes! and wonderful. eclipse-packaging/packages#102

[ruspl-afed]

Thank you @jonahgraham for verification!
Please note, that for GitHub we have only these Eclipse Projects where I have committer role and know for sure how to submit an issue. Others require additional investigation to understand the status of migration from Bugzilla.

I hope we can close this one @merks and open others for particular Eclipse Project to appear in the wizard.

[merks]

Great job. 👏🏿