Call for testing: major update of Ubuntu Brainstorm

Submitted by nand on August 22, 2008 - 21:53.

A major evolution of Ubuntu Brainstorm is on the way, and includes:

  • An UI redesign, for better navigation through projects and categories.
  • Idea rationale & solution separation, with the ability to add your solution to an existing idea rationale. That will help have a better visibility by gathering ideas tackling the same problem.
  • Approval required for newly submitted ideas. That will help make Ubuntu Brainstorm content consistent by filtering the non-ideas, duplicates and poorly described ideas.
  • Custom permissions for project administrators. Upstream and Ubuntu developers could, if they want, ask to add their project and manage ideas related to their project.
  • And much more...

I'm happy to announce that it's reaching a usable state, and is available for open testing on http://devel.ideatorrent.org. You can use your current Brainstorm login if older than the 23th June. (Warning: test server with limited resources).

Indeed, a lot of changes were done, and I'd like to test it thoroughly before going live (which I don't expect before a month). So you are welcome to post test content, vote, and report any error you find on https://bugs.launchpad.net/ideatorrent/+filebug. Discussion and suggestion about the new UI can take place in this ubuntuforums.org thread. (Note: This is a test setup, meaning that all your interactions will be removed at next code update)

Thanks for your help!

Looks and feels worse than

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on August 23, 2008 - 02:25.

Looks and feels worse than the current one... especially with the KDE 3 icons.

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Finally, the CAPTCHA when

Submitted by Exsecrabilus on August 23, 2008 - 10:30.

Finally, the CAPTCHA when logging on is gone. :D

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I found nothing wrong with

Submitted by dilomo on August 23, 2008 - 16:20.

I found nothing wrong with the programming - no errors so far. But the design is a bit strange an my need some more tweaks.
Keep up the good work!

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It is good work but: - icons

Submitted by tomaszx on August 25, 2008 - 09:03.

It is good work but:
- icons should be from gnome not from KDE - then look better
- up, down, don't care - should be in vertical notation not horizontal (too big change for old brainstorm users)
- solution# is little bit strange for me ... many times the same phrase made not clean look.

I think that this is good work.
Regards.

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Needs work. You enter the

Submitted by Endolith (not verified) on August 26, 2008 - 02:38.

Needs work.

You enter the Title and it checks for duplicates, but then the title is not pre-filled on the next page and you have to type it again?

I can't post multiple solutions to an idea I created? ("An error occured (403) You don't seem to have the right to access this page. Please make sure you are connected as the right user.")

None of the Popular Ideas has more than one Solution, so I can't see how voting for multiple solutions works. Most of the solutions are just auto-generated. Can you just delete those or put them back in quarantine until they are re-written? It's a poor demo when none of the answers looks like they would in real life.

We can't post related bugs?

Why can't we post multiple related threads, bugs, and blueprints? Why only one?

On this page, why do I have to enter a captcha again each time I press Preview?

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Idea-wise this is definitely

Submitted by aethralis on August 27, 2008 - 17:38.

Idea-wise this is definitely better, but I think the design is unfinished/immature. For example under "Ubuntu QA" the icon of "Ideas in quarantine" does not align properly. The "Submit your idea" and "Search" box are hanging separately and unaligned, "most popular in 30 days" drop down menu box looks odd. And I suggest the vote box icons (up down neutral) should be similar in size. Also the vote box could be hanging beside the idea itself, not the solution. But overall this seems to be a big improvement.

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I like it, but it's not

Submitted by Ape on October 2, 2008 - 14:55.

I like it, but it's not valid XHTML.

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