19 Sep
2009
19 Sep
'09
11:25 p.m.
The "original" Ubuntu paper cut definition
Put briefly, *a paper cut is* *a trivially fixable
usability bug that the
average user would encounter on his/her first day of using a brand new
installation of Ubuntu Desktop Edition*
so the papercut is so much trivial than it is an usability bug.
How can he tag with papercut if he doesn't know if it's a trivial
issue (since the definition of a paper cut is that
it's a trivial
issue)! :)
IMO if we want to make this initiative an user reporting process, it's
easier and more intuitive to mark the reported issues with a tag that states
the paperCut concept, than to mark it with a difficulty level.
If the
developer comes and marks it difficult, we still know that the user
though
that the issue needed attention and raises an usability problem.
I don't think papercut == usability issue. For usability issues we
should tag them with "usability" IMO since the need is more general
than just for papercuts.
Thanks
-Vincent