Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: > Steve Long <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>> It makes moving a bug from one package to another quite a complex task >>> though, as it requires two confirmation screens... and trust me that >>> happens often enough. >>> >> Shouldn't that just be scripted via pybugz? A GUI for that would be nice; >> perhaps as a pida[1] module. Frankly it appals me that y'all have so much >> time to write bash scriptlets and none to develop tools for your own >> use. > > I like Bugzilla for the very reason I can look, comment and in general > manage bugs with decency without needing client software beside a > webbrowser, and I'm rarely without a webbrowser, heck, I had one at hand > even while I was hospitalised (not in the ICU though, that was boring). > Anything that requires me an extra software is something that I'm more > likely _not_ going to use. > OK so you'd like a webapp version as well.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Users regularly offer help in this kind of area, simply because they use the same interfaces as the devs, only for it to fall at the second or third dev they interact with, if they're lucky. ] >>> Plus that would work fine if we had a bugzilla for ebuilds only, but >>> would you really mix categories together with Infra, Portage, Gentoo >>> Hosted Projects, ... ? >>> >> Who cares? > > Uh, I do, as I tend to report a lot of bugs and I don't want to have to > use the find command of my browser to see where the heck should I report > it. Don't even get me started on template bugs that I use to mass-report > problems. > > And probably most users would find the huge and long product > list to choose from most likely confusing. Users can't get it right > already with the short list we have, reporting bugs on Bugzilla product > which have nothing to do with Bugzilla... > Yeah but the point of hierarchy is so that you do one step at a time (if you want) via category -> package or just file the way you're used to. We're still only talking about a small part, in data structural terms, of bugzilla's schema, however much storage is allocated to the base level bugs. Keeping existing workflow would seem to be a requirement. -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
