On Dec 12, 2007 8:39 PM, Tim Schaub <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey- > > We currently use the keywords field to represent ticket state. Things > like "commit", "review", and "needstests" (or is it "needtests" or why > not simplify and just make it "test") are significant to us. Other > users of trac have other things in mind when they see the keywords > field. They write things like "fix this darnit" or other words that > describe the ticket for them. > > Proposal: > > We use the "Severity" field of a ticket (currently not used) to > represent the ticket state. This is a dumb word for ticket state, but > the field has a fixed vocabulary. Then we add words like "commit", > "review", and "test" - and those become options in a drop-down. Of > course users will probably still set those willy-nilly, but at least we > wouldn't get arbitrary words in there. Guess it would make sense to > have a default "in queue" state or something. > > No biggie if others like the keyword slop. I can put up with it.
+1, but I can definitely live with the current way. I think having a default "in queue" is important, otherwise I fear that people filling tickets will just pick one out. Thanks, -- Eric _______________________________________________ Dev mailing list [email protected] http://openlayers.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
