Hi all, The number of keywords[1] in bugzilla is ridiculously huge making them almost completely useless. We've identified a few dozen to nuke as a starting point in http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=302635, but thought we'd give people a chance to complain as there may be reason to save a few of those. If you find any that you want saved, please add a comment in the bug report with your reasons. In particular, this may affect Evolution as most of the keywords were created due to the Evo bug import (we may need to do some special hackery with the status whiteboard or something for them; we can dicuss that on bugzilla-devel-list or the bug report but we will assume we don't need to if no one speaks up). It would also be useful if you can identify other keywords that are nukeable.
Note that for keywords to exist and be useful we need that they - are not specific to any module or small set of modules - are widely used for querying (using extra keywords to categorize bugs, merely in order that they can be categorized more, isn't useful unless multiple people actively use those categories in searches) - we expect them to continue to widely be used in the future (e.g. something like "Gnome212blocker" wouldn't fly) If people have other words/strings that they want to categorize and search on that don't meet the above three requirements, the status whiteboard can be used (the accessibility people have successfully worked this way quite a bit). Please take any follow ups to bugzilla-devel-list (my apologies that gmail sucks and won't let me set reply-to AFAICT). Thanks, Elijah, Luis, and Olav [1] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/describekeywords.cgi _______________________________________________ Gnome-bugsquad mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-bugsquad
